The Boy Is Back (2016)

Meg Cabot's 2016 novel, told in messages, e-mails and reviews, brings the professional golfer Reed Stewart home to Bloomville, Indiana, after his elderly parents are arrested for trying to pay a restaurant bill with a postage stamp. His high-school girlfriend Becky Flowers, who now runs a senior-relocation business, hears the news from her sister Nicole. (Open Library)

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Gucci (unidentified model): Told that faking dementia is a popular way to con restaurants, Becky insists that Judge Stewart and his wife are the loveliest, most generous people alive. Her proof is the gold Gucci they gave her for her eighteenth birthday, when she had been dating Reed for only a month and her father had just been diagnosed. The maker is named; the model is not.

Source text: Remember when they gave me that gold Gucci watch for my 18th birthday? I'd only been dating Reed for a month at the time, but I think they felt bad for me, because Dad had just gotten diagnosed. (Meg Cabot, The Boy Is Back, scan cataloged as William Morrow, 2016, p. 10, in a chat message from Becky to Nicole; the scan prints curly apostrophes; Internet Archive scan OCR)