WITH EVERY MEMORY - Janine Rosche - One Free Book
Bio: Janine Roscheis the author of the Madison River Romance and Whisper Canyon series of novels.Prone to wander, she finds as much comfort on the open road as she does athome. This longing to chase adventure, behold splendor, and experienceredemption is woven into her stories. When she isn’t traveling or writingnovels, she teaches family life education courses, produces The Love WanderRead Journal, and takes too many pictures of her sleeping dogs.Contemporary fiction author Janine Rosche isa master storyteller. Her gift of balancing romance with the perfect amount offamily drama has left readers longing for more. In Rosche’s newest novel, WithEvery Memory, her talents once again rise to the forefront in a talewhere lost memories, buried secrets, and rekindled love meld together to form aheart-gripping drama.
About the story: It has been almost a year since thehorrible accident that not only took the life of Lori Mendenhall’s teenage sonbut also stole eight years of memories from her due to a traumatic braininjury. Now she is returning home—but her life is nothing like she remembered.Her sweet daughter is distant, and her once-loving husband is a workaholic sheisn’t sure she can trust. As memories begin to resurface, Lori begins to wonderif the life she can’t remember is one she’d rather forget.
Avery Mendenhall is dealing with grief inher own way. She has lost her twin brother and her mother has been beyondreach. For the past year, she has retreated to her room for solace and a safeplace to grieve. But life is catching up to her. Her grades and her relationshipsare suffering, and if she wants to graduate from high school, she will need torely on help from her brother’s best friend.
Can the Mendenhalls find a way to reconnectand put aside their fractured and fragile past in order to build a stronger andmore promising future together?
WithEvery Memory offers a powerful, relatable, and thought-provokingstory that touches upon themes of love, forgiveness, and trust.
Welcome to my blog, Janine. Can you please provide a brief summary ofyour novel With Every Memory? At itsheart, With Every Memory is the story of what happens when analready-broken family loses the one person who has been holding them together. LoriMendenhall returns home to a family she barely recognizes after the same caraccident that killed her son stole the last eight years of memories from her. Lori’sonce-loving husband is a stoic workaholic with questionable intentions, and herteenage daughter has been chewed up and spit out by the world following theloss of her twin brother. As Lori’s memories—both good and bad—resurface,she’ll have to decide whether the family she’s returned to is beyond hope.
What was the inspiration for With Every Memory? I wrote this story at a time when several of my friends were fightingto save their marriages. It was heartbreaking to see their struggles, but theworst part was the judgment that came from the people who should have been mostsupportive in the couples’ time of need. I wrote this story to honor the gritand determination of those who give their all—time, energy, tears, prayers,etc.—to keep their families together, whether they are successful or not.
One of your female protagonists, Lori Mendenhall, has experienced anaccident that left her with a traumatic brain injury. What type of research wasrequired to accurately portray someone who has experienced this type of injury?The best research, aside from experiencingsomething yourself, is to learn directly from those who have experienced it. Iconsulted a friend who kindly shared her healing journey after a traumaticbrain injury. I read books and countless blog posts from people with differenttypes of amnesia as a result of brain injury. Also, I teach the basics of braindevelopment and function through the lifespan in my college courses. For thisstory, I enjoyed diving deeper into this topic and studying the miraculous abilityof the brain to heal, restore, and rewire itself after physical or emotionaltrauma.
Lori has lost eight years of memories. As she uncovers details of herprevious life, she wonders if the life she can’t remember is one she wouldrather forget. How does she deal with these memories as they begin toresurface? Not well. But seriously, Lori has endured somuch tragedy, it’s no surprise her recovered memories cause more stress forher. Within the family dynamic, people and circumstances change over time. TheMendenhalls are no different. Lori is stuck between two different realities.Who she remembers being doesn’t fit in her current world, and she must figurethis out without the one person in the family who had remained stable throughit all—her son, Austin. The positive side of this, of course, is that Lori hasa unique opportunity to view her life with the eyes of an outsider and decideif she wants to do things differently this second time around. You are well known for creating heart-gripping family dramas. In WithEvery Memory, each member of the Mendenhall family is grappling with lossand grief in their own way. What can we learn from their struggles? Humans weren’t created to comprehend death or carry the pain thataccompanies it. We weren’t created to love someone and then lose them in aninstant. I can attest from the losses I’ve experienced that grief can tear youto pieces, especially if blame or guilt is involved. So we cope the best wecan. Rarely do these coping strategies align, which is the Mendenhalls’struggle. That’s why grief counseling is so important! With some professionalhelp, families can understand the basis for the differing coping strategies and,therefore, extend some grace to each other and us.
What other lessons do you hope readers can gain from reading yournovel? Everyone needs a Xander in their life. No,scratch that. Everyone should BE a Xander. Xander Dixon isn’t perfect by anymeans, but he does one thing that puts him above others: he shows up. He makeshimself available to be whatever the hurting person needs him to be. He’s anencourager and friend to Avery. He’s a reminder to Michael of the kind of guyhe once was. He gives Lori the chance to mother someone the way sheremembers—with grilled cheese sandwiches and extra-chocolatey milk. He even letsAnita lecture him so she can feel like she is doing something worthwhile!
What do you love most about writing contemporary fiction? One thing I can’t handle is knowing that someone feels alone when Ican’t do anything about it. That’s why I love giving readers stories aboutcharacters they can relate to, in feeling if not in circumstance. While we maynot have lost a child, had a traumatic brain injury, or whatever thecharacter’s plight is, we know fear, sorrow, shame, heartache, jubilation,love, and hope. It’s my prayer that a story with a hopeful ending willencourage readers to carry on with whatever they are facing with their ownmeasure of hope.
What are you working on next? Irecently made a dream come true by traveling Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles.It was amazing! Now I’m putting all I saw, experienced, and learned into a storyset along the fabled highway. It weaves three different eras together into anemotional tale about how we become who we are.
How can readers connect with you?
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Thank you, Janine, for sharing this book with my blog readersand me.
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