Description: A 17-year-old girl named Mia must decide whether to fight for her life or surrender to death after she is badly injured in a car accident. Mia is able to watch as her body is tended to by paramedics and rushed to the hospital, and her ob...
Synopsis A 17-year-old girl named Mia must decide whether to fight for her life or surrender to death after she is badly injured in a car accident. Mia is able to watch as her body is tended to by paramedics and rushed to the hospital, and her observations of this process are interspersed with memories of her family and friends. Her thoughts wander from her love of classical music and the cello to her developing relationship with her boyfriend to the unspoken bonds she shares with her family, as Gayle Forman expertly weaves the tactile details of the hospital with Mia's ethereal assessment of what's important in her life.
Details
Publication Date:
2009-04-02
Size
Length:
199 pages
Height:
8.5 in
Width:
6.0 in
Thickness:
0.8 in
Weight:
12.8 oz
Publisher's Note With no memory of the car accident itself, 17-year-old Mia must come to terms with never really knowing what happened one horrific winter's day that changed her life forever.
Industry Reviews "Both brutal and beautiful, this thought-provoking story will stay with readers long after the last page is turned." (05/01/2009)
"The brilliance of...[IF I STAY] is the simplicity with which it captures the fundamental dilemma of adolescence: How does one separate from one's parents and forge an independent identity?" (06/06/2009)