If+I+Stay

== =//If I Stay//=

Young Adult/Romance
When 17 year-old Mia, gets into a car accident with her parents, she ends up having to watch herself being tended by paramedics. Throughout the story, Mia is conflicted with whether she should stay and fight through the pain of losing her family and live her life, or let go and be reunited with her family in heaven and not have to deal with the pain.

Starred Review. The last normal moment that Mia, a talented cellist, can remember is being in the car with her family. Then she is standing outside her body beside their mangled Buick and her parents' corpses, watching herself and her little brother being tended by paramedics. As she ponders her state (//Am I dead?// I actually have to ask myself this), Mia is whisked away to a hospital, where, her body in a coma, she reflects on the past and tries to decide whether to fight to live. Via Mia's thoughts and flashbacks, Forman (//Sisters in Sanity//) expertly explores the teenager's life, her passion for classical music and her strong relationships with her family, friends and boyfriend, Adam. Mia's singular perspective (which will recall Alice Sebold's adult novel, //The Lovely Bones//) also allows for powerful portraits of her friends and family as they cope: Please don't die. If you die, there's going to be one of those cheesy Princess Diana memorials at school, prays Mia's friend Kim. I know you'd hate that kind of thing. Intensely moving, the novel will force readers to take stock of their lives and the people and things that make them worth living. Ages 14–up. //(Apr.)// Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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