You Must Remember This

You Must Remember This

First edition
Author	Joyce Carol Oates
Country	United States
Language	English
Published	1987 (Dutton)
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
ISBN	0-525-24545-6
OCLC	14718963
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3565.A8 Y6 1987

You Must Remember This is a 1987 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It tells the story of Enid Maria, a girl who falls in love with her uncle, a professional boxer. It also is about her family, the Stevicks, and their thriving life in Port Oriskany, a fictional industrial city in upstate New York.^[1]

Ties to other media

• The book's title comes from the song "As Time Goes By" (1931), whose first lines are, "You must remember this/ a kiss is still a kiss"; the tune was made famous when used as the theme song for Casablanca (1942).
• Lyle Stevik was the alias used by an unidentified man who committed suicide by hanging in 2001, in a motel in Amanda Park, Washington. As of 2016, his actual name has not been discovered.^[2] The man was seen alive prior to his death, including at the hotel where he died. He had checked in as Lyle Stevik, presumably using the name of a character from Oates' book.^[3]

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