I'll Remember You
by Deborah Packer
GENRE: Historical Fiction
PUBLICATION DATE: 07/27/2021
DESCRIPTION:
Based on a true family saga, currently a repped screenplay, "I’ll Remember You" is an intimate character-driven love story.
Proud, idealistic, small-town Bobbie Feinman travels to Miami Beach on vacation and (against her father’s warning) meets and falls for Murray, a charming but complicated Army Air Corps soldier from Brooklyn, haunted by horrific childhood memories of WWI Poland.
After a hasty decision to marry, they struggle with silences, doubt and misunderstanding, coasting along on the quicksand of their hurried vows — until one day in a Raleigh diner, as two black soldiers are denied service, Bobbie begins to see past the silences and doubt.
As As Murray leaves on a troop ship to England, convinced he won’t survive the war, Bobbie reflects on her short time with this stranger she calls “husband” — and wonders what a life together might be like if …
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Deborah has a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Speech and Drama from the University of Michigan where she received a Professional Theatre Program Acting Fellowship, working with the APA Repertory Company and the American Conservatory Theatre in their days on the Ann Arbor campus. Her first professional job was as Helen Hayes' daughter in a production of RIGHT YOU ARE by Pirandello. She has worked as an actress on stage, film and TV in Toronto and Los Angeles, written and performed sketch comedy in NY and LA including the Comedy Store and Comic Strip, and wrote two screenplays. I'LL REMEMBER YOU is her first novel, also currently repped in Hollywood as a screenplay.
REVIEWS:
A captivating novel based on a true story. The plot provides an eye-opening explanation of the era's anti-Semitic attitudes. Author has strong command of language including dialogue and description. - BOOKLIFE PRIZE
A historically accurate and intimate portrait of people scarred by war and intolerance and their perseverance. A love story and a war story filled with details of American life in the early 1940s. Packer's style is cinematic. She creates vivid scenes often spiced with humor. Conversations are snappy and the characters personalities shine through - BOOKTRIB
COMPARATIVE FILM/BOOK:
"The Notebook" meets "Testament of Youth"
CASTING:
Performance-driven leads capable of conveying complex characters
PRIMARY VENUES/LOCATIONS WITHIN THE BOOK:
Miami Beach, Detroit, Chicago, NYC, Raleigh N.C.