Remember This

“Maybe the best new novel I’ve read this year … In all of his work, Giardina gives us the actual size of desire: exhausting, exhilarating, unknown and unknowable.” –Anthony Domestico, Commonweal

“A fantastic book. Anthony Giardina’s Remember This is about fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, love and desire, art and theater. It is moving, compassionate and wise.” –Michael Imperioli

“Through [his] characters, Giardina explores noblesse oblige, suppressed emotions, and the ways that money tends to muck with true art … Fitting for a story rooted in upscale New York City with an eye on the past, Giardina writes with a genteel, Cheever-esque grace and charm … A cleareyed study of how a scruffier Manhattan and clearer ethics gave way to a more compromised and machined world.” –Kirkus Reviews

“Giardina writes knowingly about the worlds of theater and literature, and his deliciously flawed characters are great company. The result is a perceptive look at artists and their limitations.” –Publishers Weekly

“Remember This is so passionate about the making of art, so intelligent, so rich with memorable characters, and so cunningly suspenseful. As the plot moves between New York and Haiti, daughter and father, I fell increasingly under the spell of the wonderful prose and the profound question: what is success in life, or art? Anthony Giardina has written an amazing novel.” –Margot Livesey, author of The Road from Belhaven

“Anthony Giardina knows everything about the complexities and deceptions of family life, the delusions of desire as well, but he has never depicted them so wisely or so expansively as in Remember This. A father, a daughter, and both of them writers. Yet Henry is willful and complacent, his work behind him, while Miranda is growing into strength and just discovering, at forty, how to become the woman she wants to be. This is a magnificent book.” –Michael Gorra, author of The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War

Anthony Giardina is the author of several novels, including White Guys and Norumbega Park, as well as the short story collection The Country of Marriage. His plays have been widely performed across the United States, and his short fiction and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Esquire, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. Giardina is a regular visiting professor at the Michener Center of the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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