From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay comes an “irresistible tear jerker” (The New York Times) where a small-town girl seeks the truth behind her best friend’s suicide.
“An unflinchingly honest portrait of the bravery that it takes to live after devastating loss.”—Stephen Chbosky, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Perks of Being a Wallflower
It’s like she was my sun and then my sun went out . . .
When her charismatic best friend, Meg, drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, a piece of Cody dies, too. Meg was everything to her. How could Cody not know? Determined to find out what really happened, Cody begins a dangerous search to the shadowy fringes of Meg’s life where she discovers some unsettling truths about friendship, secrets, forgiveness, and love.
Gayle Forman is an award-winning, internationally bestselling author and journalist. She is the author of
Just One Day and
Just One Year, and the companion e-novella
Just One Night, as well as the
New York Times bestsellers
If I Stay and
Where She Went. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughters.
"
I Was Here is a pitch-perfect blend of mystery, tragedy, and romance. Gayle Forman has given us an unflinchingly honest portrait of the bravery it takes to live after devastating loss."
—Stephen Chbosky, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Perks of Being a Wallflower“Irresistible tear-jerker.”
—The New York Times “Takes tragedy, guilt, friendship, inspiration, heartache, and bravery and mixes them all up in a blender of feelings”
—Bustle“A heartbreaking novel about coping with loss from the bestselling author of
If I Stay.”
—People
"As she did in
If I Stay, Forman offers an introspective examination of the line between life and death, and the courage it takes to persist."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review“Forman sifts through Cody’s shifting psychological landscape with a sure and delicate hand, developing a character that readers will recognize themselves in . . . a relevant book as well as an absorbing one.”
—BCCB, starred review"Part tautly paced mystery, part psychological study of suicide and its aftereffects. . . An engrossing and provocative look at the devastating finality of suicide, survivor's guilt, the complicated nature of responsibility and even the role of the Internet in life-and-death decisions."
—Kirkus Reviews"Suicide has always been a subject in YA literature, and to her credit, Forman handles it sensitively and gracefully, raising important issues of the ethics and morality of the subject. The combination mystery and love story is sure to reach a wide readership and excite essential discussion. . . This latest offering should generate massive teen interest."
—Booklist"Cody's struggle with grief and complicity is intense and affecting up until an emotional gut-punch of a conclusion. Once this compelling case is closed, what remains is a haunting, elegiac tale about enduring and understanding loss."
—The Horn Book"Teens will clamor for this latest offering from the author of
If I Stay."
—School Library Journal"Hugely popular Forman, author of the acclaimed
If I Stay among others, has another best seller here. This novel’s strength lies in its depiction of main character Cody, a young woman torn by conflicts but sustained by her own sense of purpose."
—VOYA
