![]() ![]() ![]() All of her memories of her family, from hang-outs in the kitchen, to games in the backyard and even a year of street sign-specific vandalism are flawlessly happy. From the very beginning of the novel, we know that Charlie holds all of her siblings and her parents on the highest of pedestals. All of the Grant siblings are coming home for the ceremony and Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend together before her parents sell their house, before she goes to college, and everything changes.Īnd Charlie does mean perfect. The book opens on the weekend of Charlie's sister Linnie's wedding. ![]() ![]() That's why I relate so much to Charlie Grant, the heroine in Morgan Matson's new book Save the Date, who is about as nostalgic a person as you can be. Those simple days of watching a new episode of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers after school, playing with my Skip-It, and never having to worry about Twitter trolls or Instagram likes loom large in mind as "the good old days." We all have those memories we hold preserved in amber - the times in our lives that we can only see the golden aspects of. I can get caught up in nostalgia with the best of them. ![]()
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