If I Stay Book Review

A thoroughly contemporary — and deeply moving — portrait of a marriage; In a fairly slim volume, author gayle forman manages to create a believable and virtually blameless character in mia.

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If i stay book review. His brother is fighting in vietnam. I closed this book without a single criticism or negative comment. Yejide and akin’s fairytale romance is being put to the ultimate test by the pressure to conceive.

In addition to plenty of swearing and sexual material (including a steamy scene of mutual masturbation), it deals with the aftermath of the gruesome accident as mia decides if she wants to live or die. An unforgettable novel about the power of friendship and kindness by the new york times bestselling author of pay it forward. The assumption is that yejide’s reproductive organs are the problem.

4.37 · rating details · 21,707 ratings · 1,732 reviews. Honestly, i doubt i’ll think about this book after i finish this review. In fact, the back cover quotes the sacramento bee as saying, “long after its last moment, readers may find themselves dwelling on how the story resonates in their own lives.”.

If i stay's blend of teen romance and supernatural melodrama doesn't break the ya mold, but it's a decent addition to the genre nonetheless. Women who make a fuss 1. The violence and the backdrop feel grim and authentic throughout, and ugly’s sordid trawl is detailed in tight, gritty prose.

For whatever direction the wilkinsons’ lives. A horrific road accident leaves a teenage girl. I t has never been clearer than now that we must “stay with the trouble” and actively seek possibilities for recuperation even as we are anxiously learning the great depths of the trouble we face.

She is very close to her family, and loves to hang out with them. Should we stay or should we go, by lionel shriver. Brilliantly written with as much love as there is sorrow, with as much life as there is death, if i stay shows us the importance of family and friends that, together, make up our lives.

A must read that i would recommend for all fans of ya contemporary novels such as lauren oliver's before i fall. But when they take advantage of a snow day to go for a car trip, they end up in a catastrophic accident. You felt like you actually knew the characters in the story and you felt for them as these incidents were happening to them.

Akin’s family have taken matters into their own hands by finding him a second, supposedly more fertile wife, funmi. I think forman is a skilled and funny writer who captivates her readers from the first page to the last. This book was a very deep book, one that makes you stop and think about life and the things that are happening in your life.

While greg’s positive about the move, he’s not completely uncaring about rowley’s action. In many of the chapters, cyril and kay end up experiencing old age together, whether it brings surprisingly successful second careers, gradual physical decline or. If i stay is a young adult novel by gayle forman published in 2009.

This is a book concerned with exactly that,. Donna haraway’s staying with the trouble. Mia is the only member of her family to survive, and she finds herself in a coma.

Author lionel shriver, author of we need to talk about kevin, and now should we stay or should we go. Yet the novel isn’t really about death, one learns while negotiating its branching paths. That decision seems trite in comparison to the one she faces after a deadly car crash changes the course of her life forever.

It is, at once, a gothic parable about pride and betrayal; And a novel, in the lineage of great works by chinua achebe.

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