The Memories That Remain is the nostalgic, coming-of-age story of Carlyle Tipton. Carr, as he’s known to his friends, is a young man of twenty-one just coasting through life in the summer of 1974, until circumstances interrupt his normally untroubled existence. In a few short weeks, Carr faces the best and worst of life's possibilities. By the end of summer, he not only has to learn to be a man, he must make a decision that will determine the kind of man he'll become.