I Was Here

Gayle Forman

Jan 2015 · Sold by Penguin

About this eBook

Cody and Meg were inseparable...
Until they weren’t.
 
When her best friend, Meg, drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, and some secrets of his own. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets thrown into question.
 
"I Was Here is a pitch-perfect blend of mystery, tragedy, and romance. Gayle Forman has given us an unflinchingly honest portrait of the bravery that it takes to live after devastating loss."
—Stephen Chbosky, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Ratings and reviews

Takes you on a hard-to-read (emotionally) journey about suicide's aftereffects. Slightly based on a true story, it made me think a little bit. Very sad, but uplifting at the same time. I feel like Cody (the main character) and I have a lot in common, including her reactions to some of the stuff that happened. I don't know if I would have the strength that she had dealing with it though. I wasn't sure what to expect from this novel when I first started to read it, but I am glad that I did. It did put me in a little bit of a downer mood after reading it though.

This story isn't about suicide, or depression, or the evil in some people who thrive on others' hopelessness. It is about those who are still here; the ones left behind to grieve, to hurt, to be angry, to feel guilty, to wonder why. This story tells of one girl who looks so hard for the answer, not realizing she was looking in the wrong place all along. This is about the stigma of suicide, the shame that causes people to hide instead of reaching out. Thank you.

It was literally the best book ever and anyone that says otherwise is stupid and has something wrong in the brain. Loved Cody, she was my fav character. It was such an amazing story line everyone should give it a 5 star rating it was so good. If you haven't read it yet I suggest you do cause it's amazing and I gf s my fav book so I wouldn't lie.

About the author

Gayle Forman is an award-winning, internationally bestselling author and journalist. She is the author of Just One Day and Just One Year, and the companion e-novella Just One Night, as well as the New York Times bestsellers If I Stay and Where She Went. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughters.