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Roztomilý debut o tom, co se stane, když se dívka, která nemůže zapomenout, spřátelí s mužem, který si zoufale snaží vzpomenout. Gavin, truchlící nad smrtí své partnerky, v žalu spálí každou fyzickou upomínku a prchá z Los Angeles do New Jersey. Zde žije desetiletá Joan, dcera přítele, která se narodila se vzácnou schopností vybavit si každý detail z každého dne svého života. Doufá, že mu pomůže udržet při životě vzpomínky na jeho milovanou Sydney. Gavin a Joan uzavřou dohodu: Joan bude sdílet své vzpomínky na Sydney ze šesti návštěv u u nich v minulých letech s Gavinem a Gavin ji na oplátku pomůže vyhrát lokální soutěž textařů a pomůže jí ke slávě. Tato zvláštní dvojice má cíl psát a vzpomínat. Dokud jedna z Joaniných vzpomínek přiměje Gavina pochybovat o tom, že ho Sydney doopravdy milovala. Kniha Upomínky je vtipný a dojemný příběh ztráty, vzpomínek a přátelství.

From the show's creators comes the groundbreaking novel inspired by the Broadway smash hit Dear Evan Hansen. Dear Evan Hansen, Today's going to be an amazing day and here's why... When a letter that was never meant to be seen by anyone draws high school senior Evan Hansen into a family's grief over the loss of their son, he is given the chance of a lifetime: to belong. He just has to stick to a lie he never meant to tell, that the notoriously troubled Connor Murphy was his secret best friend. Suddenly, Evan isn't invisible anymore--even to the girl of his dreams. And Connor Murphy's parents, with their beautiful home on the other side of town, have taken him in like he was their own, desperate to know more about their enigmatic son from his closest friend. As Evan gets pulled deeper into their swirl of anger, regret, and confusion, he knows that what he's doing can't be right, but if he's helping people, how wrong can it be? No longer tangled in his once-incapacitating anxiety, this new Evan has a purpose. And a website. He's confident. He's a viral phenomenon. Every day is amazing. Until everything is in danger of unraveling and he comes face to face with his greatest obstacle: himself. A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief, authenticity and the struggle to belong in an age of instant connectivity and profound isolation.