Author: Gayle Forman
This moving first person novel, told by seventeen-year-old Mia, begins as a carefree, unexpected holiday. School is called off because of snow, leaving Mia, her eight-year-old brother Teddy, and her teacher father free for the day. Her mother takes the day off work, too, and since the snow melts off the roads almost immediately, the family piles into the car to visit friends and grandparents. When a pickup truck smashes into the passenger side, Mia's mother and father are killed outright, her little brother is critically injured, and she finds herself standing over her own body as rescue workers fight to save her life. The book continues through the harrowing day and night with Mia's descriptions of current horrors in present tense sections identified by clock time followed by past tense sections devoted to her memories of family and friends. Through this narration, we learn about her eccentric but loving parents, her affection for Teddy, her deep friendship with her classmate Kim, her strong relationship with her rock-musician boyfriend Adam, and her own promising future as a classical cellist. Throughout her day and night in the operating room and the intensive care unit, she observes her unconscious self in the bed and--after hearing a nurse tell her grandparents that whether she lives or dies is up to her--wrestles with her decision. She is torn between fearing that she cannot bear to live with the loss of her parents and brother, and aching to stay with Kim and Adam and her grandparents. The resolution comes when......like i wld tell you the end! you have to read it! This book If I stay was a great read. And i enjoyed it! I would give it 4 1/2 stars because it was a great book and i had a good story line and it went into depth with Mias life before the crash with her family and Adam.I aslo liked how it showed Mias and Adams relationship and how different tthey rly were. I took 1/2 a star away cause it is kinda short and i didnt like how they went into detail about what happened in the crash. It rly dont like graphic scenes! But it was a great book! It takes a lot for me to read a book and cry, but this one i was crying!
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