Coming Soon: Where She Went by Gayle Forman

SUMMARY:

It’s been three years since the devastating accident … three years since Mia walked out of Adam’s life forever.

Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Julliard’s rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his new rock star status and celebrity girlfriend. When Adam gets stuck in New York by himself, chance brings the couple together again, for one last night. As they explore the city that has become Mia’s home, Adam and Mia revisit the past and open their hearts to the future – and each other.

Told from Adam’s point of view in the spare, lyrical prose that defined If I Stay, Where She Went explores the devastation of grief, the promise of new hope, and the flame of rekindled romance.

Publishers Weekly Starred Review:

“I know it’s really cheesy–crass even–to compare my being dumped to the accident that killed Mia’s family, but I can’t help it. Because for me, at any rate, the aftermath felt exactly the same.” Forman follows up her bestselling If I Stay with a story that is equally if not more powerful, set three years after the previous book and told from the perspective of Mia’s former boyfriend, Adam. Mia and Adam haven’t seen each other since she left for Juilliard, deserting him just months after emerging from her coma. Adam’s anguish found an outlet in songwriting, and the resulting album, Collateral Damage, has become a sensation, turning Adam and his band into bona fide rock stars, though he’s barely keeping it together. Mia’s career as a cellist is taking off as well, and a chance meeting in New York City gives Mia and Adam the opportunity to exorcise the ghosts of their past. Having spent If I Stay in Mia’s head, readers are, like Adam, thrust into a state of unknowing regarding Mia’s thoughts and motivations. It’s an extremely effective device, and one that makes this reunion all the more heartrending. Ages 14–up. (Apr.)

Author: Gayle Forman

Release Date: April 5, 2011