Gail Foreman: the novel "If I Stay"

Gail Foreman is a popular writer. Translated into many languages stories and stories of the American author. What works come to mind, above all, in the name of Gail Foreman? The book "Just One Day" and "If I Stay." A description of one of them is presented in the article.

about the author

Gail Foreman worked as a journalist, wrote articles for youth publications. But after the round-the-world trip, which she did together with her husband, decided to devote herself to fiction. The writer is interested in the life of people under the age of twenty. It was for teenagers that most of the works were dedicated to Gail Foreman.

"Just one day" is a book about a humble girl who had a meeting in her life that changed her destiny. In the work the author also reflects her own feelings, which she experienced while traveling in 2002. The most famous work to date Gail Foreman - "If I stay."

Genre peculiarity

The book is compared to the bestseller Ellis Siebold. But in the work "Lovely Bones" we are talking about the experiences of a girl who died at the hands of a maniac. The book Gail Forman presents the thoughts and memories of a seventeen-year-old girl who is in a coma. The work belongs to the genre of a love-fiction novel. But there is a deep psychological implication in it. What is the reason for the success of the novel? Why is the book about a girl between life and death becoming a bestseller?

"If I Stay"

Miya is a young and talented cellist. Music in the life of the family is not the last place. But the girl is not like her parents. They are active people, sociable, modern, they love rock music. And they were much surprised when Mia announced her desire to become a cellist. However, the choice of the daughter was approved.

Under the bed, Mia collects a collection of classical music. She did not tell her boyfriend Adam for a long time about this. After all, modern girls do not listen to Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky's works.

Memories fly in the girl's head at a time when she is on the verge of death. She thinks of her parents, her brother, Adam, Kim's best friend. The heroine of the novel, Gayle Foreman, was just beginning to live. She knew the first love, passionately engaged in music, spent a lot of time with his girlfriend.

Memories of a happy life contrast with the description of the hospital ward. Thoughts about the past alternate with arguments about life and death. This method of making the novel makes Foreman particularly heartfelt. The author thus shows the life of ordinary people who hardly realize how happy they are. In order to appreciate what you have, you need to lose everything.

Most of the thoughts of Mia are occupied by Adam. She is only seventeen years old, but she loves to really. However, at some point, music studies turn into something more serious, and the girl begins to think about going to study in New York. And this means that Adam will have to part. Everyone must go through life on their own way. Perhaps the paths of Mia and Adam will disperse. Seventeen years is an uncomfortable age for love.

Between heaven and earth

Open pneumothorax. This terrible and incomprehensible phrase was uttered by an ambulance doctor when the girl's lifeless body was taken to the hospital. Mia's soul is everywhere accompanying doctors who are fighting for her life. From them, she learns that, in addition to pneumothorax, she has many injuries. And Mia starts to think about whether she should recover. Should she stay?

Teddy never grows up, does not fall in love, does not marry, and does not become a father. Miya, who by the time of the accident lived seventeen years, saw in life more than her brother. The girl thinks about this, or rather her soul, wandering through the hospital corridors. She is not sure that she wants to live. And the more Mia is convinced that she must follow her parents and her brother, the more difficult it becomes for doctors to fight for her life.

Her visit to her grandparents. Kim comes to Mia. But the main person for her is still Adam. It depends on him whether Mia will want to stay. After all, only he will be able to convince the girl that, despite the death of loved ones, she must live. And she stays.

Easy and lively language sets out his stories Gail Foreman. Books tell of sad events, but they do not have superfluous sentiment. Namely, this style of presentation makes the literary work particularly penetrating and sincere.

"Where did she go?"

This book is a continuation of the novel described above. According to the readers' reviews, the previous work, although it has some incompleteness, has a harmonious and exciting plot. Fans Gail Foreman was much upset by reading the continuation of the novel "If I Stay." In content, it is inferior to the bestseller.

In the book "Where did she go" is the relationship between Adam and Mia. But this time events take place a few years after the ill-fated accident. Adam became a rock star. Miya devoted her life to classical music. Heroes are found in New York. Perhaps the continuation of a successful book by Gail Forman was not worth writing. At least, so believe readers, disappointed in the novel "Where she went".