Gail Foreman is a popular writer. The stories and stories of the American author have been translated into many languages. What works come to mind, first of all, with the name Gail Foreman? Books "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 a trip around the world, which she made with her husband, she decided to devote herself to fiction. The writer is interested in the lives of people under the age of twenty. It was teenagers who devoted most of the works to Gail Forman.
“Just One Day” is a book about a modest girl, in whose life a meeting took place that changed her fate. In the work, the author also reflects her own feelings that she experienced during a trip in 2002. Gail Forman's best-known work of today is If I Stay.
Genre originality
The book is compared to the best-selling book Ellis Seebold. But the work “Cute Bones” refers to the experiences of a girl who died at the hands of a maniac. The book by Gail Foreman contains the thoughts and memories of a seventeen-year-old girl in a coma. The work belongs to the genre of love-science fiction novel. But there is a deep psychological subtext in it. What is the reason for the success of the novel? Why did a book about a girl between life and death become a bestseller?
"If I stay"
Mia is a young and talented cellist. Music in family life is not the last place. But the girl is not like her parents. They are active, sociable, modern people, they love rock music. And they were quite surprised when Mia announced her desire to become a cellist. However, the daughter approved the choice.
A collection of classical music is gathering dust under Mia’s bed. She did not tell her boyfriend Adam for a long time. After all, modern girls do not listen to the works of Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.
Memories fly through the girl’s head while she is on the verge of death. She thinks of her parents, brother, Adam, Kim’s best friend. The heroine of the novel, Gail Foreman, was just starting to live. She knew her first love, enthusiastically studied music, spent a lot of time with her friend.
Memories of a happy life contrast with the description of the hospital room. Thoughts about the past alternate with discussions about life and death. This method of presentation makes Forman's novel particularly soulful. The author thereby shows the life of ordinary people who are hardly aware how happy they are. In order to appreciate what you have, you need to lose everything.
Most of Mia's thoughts are Adam. She is only seventeen years old, but she really loves. However, at some point, music lessons develop into something more serious, and the girl begins to think about going to study in New York. And this means that you have to part with Adam. Everyone must walk their own life through life. Perhaps the paths of Mia and Adam will diverge. 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 begins to think about whether she should recover. Does she need to stay?
Teddy will never grow up, will not fall in love, will not marry and will not become a father. Mia, who had lived seventeen years at the time of the accident, saw more in her life than her brother. This is what the girl thinks, or rather her soul, wandering along 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 brother, the more difficult it becomes for doctors to fight for her life.
Her grandparents visit. Kim’s girlfriend comes to Mia. But the main person for her is still Adam. It depends on him whether Mia wants 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 remains.
Gale Forman sets out his stories in a light and vibrant language. Books tell of sad events, but there is no extra sentiment in them. Namely, such a style of presentation makes the literary work especially penetrating and sincere.
"Where did she go?"
This book is a continuation of the novel described above. According to readers, the previous work, although it has a certain incompleteness, has a harmonious and exciting plot. Fans of Gail Foreman were upset a lot by reading the sequel to If I Stay. In content, it is inferior to the bestseller.
The book “Where She Gone” refers to the relationship between Adam and Mia. But this time, events take place several years after the ill-fated accident. Adam became a rock star. Mia devoted her life to classical music. Heroes meet in New York. Perhaps the continuation of a successful book by Gail Foreman was not worth writing. At least that is what readers who are disappointed in the novel “Where did she go,” think so.