If I Stay

Gayle Forman

Apr 2009 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Heart-wrenchingly raw and heartbreakingly romantic, Gayle Forman’s international bestseller asks the ultimate question: What would you do if you had to choose?

“Beautifully written.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Every moment I spent reading Forman’s masterpiece drew me in more.”—NPR.com

Everything can change in an instant. For Mia, the day started like any other, surrounded by a loving family, an adoring boyfriend, and a bright future filled with music and infinite possibilities. What she never expected is the choice before her now. Caught between life and death, between a happy past and an uncertain future, Mia has to contemplate everything she holds dear and make a choice: to go or to stay. 

Adapted into a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia's story will stay with you for a long, long time.

Ratings and reviews

Beautifully written and shows what we all think and feel when a tragedy such as the one the main character went through. It's a battle within your own mind that you have to fight and truly make a final decision so as to face the harshness of the brutal world, but also see and feel the love of what's good in your life.

The story was captive. And I felt "first person", without getting too bored or overwhelmed. It was a wonderful and tearful ride. Personally, I wish novel writers would bleep out more curse words... I understand their placement, but it's harder to share their art with my children. That being said, this is a masterpiece of written emotion, and a treasure.

I think there should have been a better ending, like if we knew she survived in the book 📖 I will the movie soon the book was short and I cried through the whole thing if you're young u won't understand the book

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.