I Was Here
- Subject
- Social Themes - Suicide
- Age
- Teen
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Speak
- Size
- 13.7 cm × 20.8 cm
- ISBN
- 9780147514035
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.
“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.
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What reviewers said
"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.”
“Takes tragedy, guilt, friendship, inspiration, heartache, and bravery and mixes them all up in a blender of feelings”
“A heartbreaking novel about coping with loss from the bestselling author of If I Stay.”
"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."
“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.”
