Before I Forget: A Novel

Cricket Campbell, 26, works at a wellness company but feels far from well. Still struggling with the aftermath of a tragedy from a decade earlier, she faces a new challenge when her father Arthur is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. When her older sister Nina decides to move him from their family's Adirondack lake house to a memory-care facility, Cricket proposes an alternative: she'll return home to care for him, hoping to repair their damaged relationship and find direction in her own life. Back at Catwood Pond, the family house she hasn't visited since her teenage years, Cricket discovers something unexpected. As Arthur's memory of the past fades, he develops an unusual ability to predict the future. His reputation as an unlikely oracle grows, but for Cricket, accepting her father's prophecies means confronting painful moments from her own history. Through humor and emotional depth, the novel examines how memory shapes us, the bonds within families, and what it means to move forward by revisiting the past.