"Brilliant pacing, characterization, and imagery. That You Remember is a universally worthy, socioeconomic tour-de-force. It is fiction resonating as fact."
-Peter Kilborn, New York Times correspondent and author, Next Stop Reloville
"Isabel Reddy has written a big, sweeping novel with a big, beating heart. An entire mountain community comes to life in this epic story of a Kentucky mine disaster told from both sides as it follows the star-crossed love between an absentee mine owner from Connecticut and a beautiful local waitress. That You Remember could not be more relevant today, carrying an important message for our own time. Deep characterization and important themes mark this engrossing novel as a major achievement---as well as a page-turner."
-Lee Smith, author, The Last Girls
"With this novel, Isabel Reddy has given us a landscape so dramatically rendered, we can almost walk around in it. As thoughtful as it is evocative, That You Remember is an ode to a region, an elegy for a tidal wave of destruction, vivid and haunting, full of life and loss alike."
-Judy Goldman, author, Child: A Memoir
"The characters in That You Remember are decent, humble, salt-of-the-earth types who, frankly, don't much get written about. Isabel Reddy allows them their dignity, their struggles, their humanity. This is, for my money, what the novel does best of all-takes situations that we think are so foreign to us and reminds us of our shared humanity, of all the things that unite and link us: wishes for love, family, safety. It's a big-hearted and compassionate view of the world, and I think that's immensely valuable, especially now."
-Mark Sarvas, author, Memento Park
"A moving, imagined story of coal miners and their families leading up to a coal mine disaster in Appalachia."
-Gerald M. Stern, author, The Buffalo Creek Disaster
"The book is meticulously researched, full of interesting details about the lives of Appalachian coal miners and is quite moving as she describes the daily struggles of her characters."
-Tom Nugent, investigative journalist
"The characters in the story were...believable and the interactions among them were credible and genuine."
-Jeff Skousen, Professor of Soils and Reclamation Specialist at West Virginia University
"A page-turner of impending doom that makes time for the complexities of human relationships."
-Kirkus Reviews
"Centered on the vividly evoked hollows and pitmouths of Appalachian mining country in 1970, Reddy's accomplished debut deftly blends past and present, romance and tragedy, social realism and self-exploration, along with a present-day woman's search to better understand her coal executive father-and the workings of her own heart."
-BookLife Reviews
"Reddy's novel pulled at my heartstrings. The characters...felt like people I know...a book that will stay with you...a story that is impossible to forget."
-Aaron Parsons, Director of Archives and History at the West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture & History
