Mia has it all, a cool boyfriend, loving parents, a bright future as a world class concert cellist. One snowy day, she and her family take a drive. With her parents and her little brother now dead, Mia must decide. "What would you do if you had to choose?" Will Mia stay or will she join her dead family?
This is a FABULOUS read. I laughed but mostly cried as I read Mia's story. The first person narrative flashes between a hospital room and Mia's memories of her love, her family and her cello. Mia's friends and family try to connect to her seemingly lifeless body. While her Grandfather understands her temptation to go her best friend Kim reminds her that "you still have a family".
From Publisher's Weekly 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.) --Staff (Reviewed March 2, 2009) (Publishers Weekly, vol 256, issue 9, p64)
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