Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jacqueline Woodson | Remember Us

Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jacqueline Woodson | Remember Us

Wednesday, October 25, 6 – 7pm

Free In-store Event

Join us to welcome acclaimed author and National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming) to the store for a reading and signing of her new middle grade novel, Remember Us, which has received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Horn Book, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist.

This powerful story delves deeply into life’s burning questions about time and memory and what we take with us into the future.

“It seems like Sage’s whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as “The Matchbox” in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she’s also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she’s known since childhood. A group that each day, feels further and further away from her. But it’s also the summer of Freddy, a new kid who truly gets Sage. Together, they reckon with the pain of missing the things that get left behind as time moves on, savor what’s good in the present, and buoy each other up in the face of destruction. And when the future comes, it is Sage’s memories of the past that show her the way forward. Remember Us speaks to the power of both letting go . . . and holding on.”