Try to Remember - Hardcover

When a depressed Phoebe Fairchild, with the help of her therapist, Sahra Meehan, accuses her father of sexual abuse and then tries to involve her sister, Bess, in the therapy, the accusations threaten to tear her close family apart. 20,000 first printing.

s a powerful and courageous novel about a family struggling to know the truth about its past without being destroyed by it. You either need to read it or know somebody who does."
--Phyllis Theroux, author of California and Other States of Grace
    
Phoebe Fairchild--in her twenties, high-achieving, and her father's favorite--is unaccountably depressed. Her new therapist, Sahra Meehan, becomes her lifeline, and with Sahra as her guide, Phoebe begins to uncover what she believes are childhood memories of her father: an inappropriate touch here, a look there, then more. Phoebe's parents are at first unbelieving and then shattered when Phoebe accuses her father of sexual abuse, and Claire and Harvey Fairchild's loving marriage of twenty-five years is thrown into question. When Phoebe tries to involve her sister, Bess, in the therapy, the family is in danger of splitting apart completely. Insightful, richly detailed, and wonderfully wr