Published: September 6th 2016 by Algonquin
Books
Read:
November 2016
How I Got It:
Ebook (approximately 352 pages) from NetGalley
Maribeth Klein has it all: a job as editor, a husband, a set
of twins, and lots of responsibilities. That’s why, when she has a heart
attack, she dismisses the pain. She doesn’t believe that her condition is
serious, until it becomes so, and her life is turned upside down. Soon the people
she cared for were left to care for her, and not doing a very good job of it.
Maribeth decides then to leave; leave her cell phone, her computer, her work,
and her family. She starts a new life in a new city, and she tries to figure
out who she is in the midst of this big crazy world.
Gayle Forman is an extraordinary writer, so extraordinary in
fact that she can make readers fall in love with highly unlikable characters.
Maribeth is a character who has done a very taboo thing by leaving her family
with nothing but a note as a goodbye, and she makes some bad decisions along
her journey as well. However, she is not a bad person, and Forman does a great
job of showing all sides to this character. Forman is well known for her YA
novels, If I Stay, Where She Went, Just
One Day, Just One Year, Where She Went, and Sisters in Sanity, but this adult
debut will appeal to both adults and her avid YA readers.
*Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an advanced electronic copy in exchange for an honest review.
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