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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

by Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author)

3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 · rating details · 14,946 ratings · 1,342 reviews

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would und...more

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Jul 18, 2012 karen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: and-so-this-is-grad-school, why-yes-i-ya

there may be spoilers*, but mild and gentle ones, not "it was earth all along" spoilers. this is a book i was reading for school, not because i am a big fan of realistic teen fiction. if you are a teen girl wondering if you should read this book, this is probably not going to be the review for you. in fact, you should stay away from most of my reviews because i am careless and i don't want to be responsible for shattering any beautiful innocence about life or anything. stay gold and all that.

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there may be spoilers*, but mild and gentle ones, not "it was earth all along" spoilers. this is a book i was reading for school, not because i am a big fan of realistic teen fiction. if you are a teen girl wondering if you should read this book, this is probably not going to be the review for you. in fact, you should stay away from most of my reviews because i am careless and i don't want to be responsible for shattering any beautiful innocence about life or anything. stay gold and all that.

the brain is a complicated organ. duh. well, it is. and i can only assume that gabrielle zevin did her brain-research to get all the facts about amnesia and memory loss and its potential for recovery into fighting shape.but amnesia in general seems like such a contrivance - a staple of soap operas and romantic comedies, it never seems real, even though it happens every day.how does the brain selectively lose chunks of information but retain others? please don't tell me - this is just a rhetorical musing- my brain does not even want to begin to think about it. instead, i am choosing to interpret amnesia here as more of a metaphor for the formlessness of adolescence, where a girl can fall for the tennis jock one day and see no conflict in then developing feelings for the moody and tortured artist and then deciding her goofy best friend is the next logical move. where hobbies are acquired and dropped with regularity and friends change with the season. i mean, obviously the character in this book has actual amnesia (mind those stairs, kids!) but i'm am talking big-picture, the value of this book to readers. i mean - who is the most logical audience for this book?? amnesiacs?? they won't even remember having read it, so too bad for them.

the audience is just everyday teens, either exercising their schadenfreude muscles, or who can relate to the feelings of confusion and freedom that this amnesiac experiences. adolescence is already filled with infinite possibilities - where so many things are still new and untried, but imagine starting over within this already emotional and hormonal time and being given a free pass to do anything and be able to blame it on amnesia? score!! she writes this part exceptionally well.and i love teen fiction with flawed protagonists. most teens i come into contact with are selfish assholes - it's just that stage in development. i'm pretty sure i was a selfish asshole at fifteen as well. so i appreciate it when the characters aren't all noble virgin peacemakers. i think that the discovery of the unreliable narrator is one of the joys of development as a reader, and there are not many in teen fiction - it marks a transition into adult literature, like "look at the possibilities". this narrator isn't unreliable per se, not intentionally so, but she is awfully unlikable, presumably contracting a heavy dose of jerkiness with her head trauma.

so at the end of the day, i think she wrote a fantastic book about being emotionally unmoored. whether she wrote a great book about amnesia is debatable, but i think the emotional ups and downs of youth are captured well, and it is a book teen girls will probably eat up with a spoon. (because i know you guys are still reading this, just because i told you not to)

* a note on spoilers from my textbook (literature for today's young adults - nilsen and donelson 8th edition) that i think puts it well:

the more you read, the more your pleasure will come not so much from being surprised at how a book ends but from your recognition of all the things the author did to bring you as the reader to the end of the story. As discussed in the following section, “Stages of Literary Appreciation,” reading is similar to a journey where what you experience along the way is often as important
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Mar 07, 2008 babyhippoface rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, listened-via-audiobook

This is the kind of book that reminds me why I am not a middle school or high school librarian. I need to be able to choose two-and-a-half stars. There were things I really liked about this book, and other things I really did not like.

The idea of a teenager who has, basically, "lost" 4 years of her life is compelling and thought-provoking. That would be so strange. Interesting to think about, and I liked that part of the story. I wanted to find out what happened to Naomi. But the more I read, th...more

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Jan 06, 2008 Karin rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: youngadult, 2008-reads

Naomi Porter regains consciousness as she is being put into an ambulence. She hears an unfamiliar voice claiming to be her boyfriend and opens her eyes to see him sitting beside her on the way to the hospital. The pain in her head is so severe that she doesn't worry about the fact that she has no idea who the guy is holding her hand and telling her everything is going to be okay.

In the hospital, Naomi learns that she fell down the steps of her high school and hit her head hard enough to cause br...more Naomi Porter regains consciousness as she is being put into an ambulence. She hears an unfamiliar voice claiming to be her boyfriend and opens her eyes to see him sitting beside her on the way to the hospital. The pain in her head is so severe that she doesn't worry about the fact that she has no idea who the guy is holding her hand and telling her everything is going to be okay.

In the hospital, Naomi learns that she fell down the steps of her high school and hit her head hard enough to cause brain trauma. The mysterious boy who kept her company in the ambulence and stayed in the hospital with her until her father arrived turned out to be a boy she didn't really know. James is a boy with a troubled past and new to her high school and just happened to be there when Naomi fell. He didn't want her to be alone so he lied to the paramedics in order to get permission to ride to the hospital with her. Naomi feels an immediate attraction to him especially after she realizes she can't remember anything in her life from the past four years. She can at least remember James since she met him after he woke up.

The next several months are difficult for Naomi. Her father, a writer by trade, calms his nerves in the hospital by starting a list of things Naomi doesn't remember. Things on the list include:

1. Will Landsman - her best friend and her co-editor on the high school yearbook.
2. The divorce of her mother and father.
3. The fact that her mother has had a child with her new husband and she now has a sister.
4. Ace - her boyfriend.
5. How to drive.

When her father is finished with the list it is five pages long and contains one hundred and eighty-six items on it.

Once Naomi starts the school year everything becomes more complicated. She has to deal with people that knew her as she was before the accident and change her behavior based on their cues. She begins to analyze her life and make decisions about what is important to her now - and sometimes she realizes that what was once very important to her might not be as important to her now and visa versa.

MEMOIRS OF A TEENAGE AMNESIAC is another wonderful novel by Gabrielle Zevin. The characters come alive on the first page and find a place in the reader's heart. It is a love story without being a "love story." Pick it up and you won't be disappointed.

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Jan 24, 2012 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2009, ya, ala-s-best-books

This author’s got talent! It is such a rare treat to read such remarkable and undeniably realistic characters. Zevin weaves the tale of Naomi’s self discovery with extraordinary skill and creates characters that are so alive, I feel like I know them and experienced the events of this story right along with them as opposed to merely reading about them.

In one misstep, Naomi lost years' worth of memories. After hitting her head on the steps after school, she wakes up in an ambulance, more aware of...more

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Jun 25, 2010 Annalisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Annalisa by: YA book club

Shelves: young-adult, voice, contemporary, cover

When you hear people talk about voice, this is what they are talking about. The voice in this book is fabulous: strong, funny, and intelligent. I loved it, and I loved that Zevin tells us absolutely nothing. She shows it to us. She never tells us whether to like Naomi or always what she's thinking or what to expect her to do or want or become. I can see how that could be frustrating for girls who are used to books that tell them what to think, but I thought it was refreshing and made the book al...more

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Oct 26, 2008 Kristi (The Story Siren) rated it 3 of 5 stars

It all started with a coin toss. Naomi picked heads and now she can’t remember the past four years of her life. Well there was a little bit more to the accident than the coin toss, there is the part about falling down the stairs head first, but the coin toss was the ultimate downfall.

She doesn’t remember her best friend Will, she doesn’t remember her boyfriend Ace, she doesn’t remember her parents divorce, but she does remember James the boy who found her after the accident.
Everyone tries to tel...more

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Nov 12, 2008 Rebecca rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In high school, no one knows who they are, right? Well in her book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, Gabrielle Zevin takes this truism one step further. When Naomi Porter finds herself waking up in a hospital bed, stranger at her side, she truly has no idea how she got there - or who she is.

After the seventeen year old Naomi takes a tumble down the school stairs, she loses all her memories after the age of twelve - she has no idea how old she is (though she "feels" older), doesn't know why her moth...more

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Aug 29, 2010 Janina rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult-fiction, read-in-2010, given-away, annoyed-me, contemporary, titles-i-love

This book really could have been good if I hadn't disliked the main character and her love interest so much.
Towards the end, it got a little bit better, but up until then, I was mostly feeling annoyed by Naomi and her behaviour. Especially since she decided to treat the characters I really liked, namly her dad and Will, rather badly. And didn't even care enough to apologize to them later when she realized she had been mean.

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Mar 17, 2009 Steven rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: youngadult, novels

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is well worth the read. It is truly a novel written for teenage girls, not just well written young adult fiction. The plot is good, taking you to places that you don’t anticipate. The pace is good, everything well timed. The characters are not two dimensional.

I had some problems with the first person voice. Zevin used that in her other novel, Elsewhere. It is very distinctive, made the heroine of each novel blend. At first I thought that they were too similar. Both...more

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May 13, 2013 Natalie rated it 2 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. First of all, if you bought this book thinking it's a good, teen romance, I would say stop right there!

Also, I've marked this at having spoilers, but it has big spoilers. I even talk a bit about the end, so if you haven't read this book yet, I would suggest you halt. Unless of course, you want to know about it before deciding to read it. If that's the case, carry on!

This novel is not a romance. In fact, I'm I’ve only finished the book minutes ago and I'm feeling let-down, irritated and puzzled....more

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Oct 20, 2011 Annabelle Marie Veronica rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-that-made-me-cry, i-love-a-guy-in-this-book, i-own, romance, sexy-sexy-bad-boy, love-triangles, unlikable-heroines, made-no-sense, ending-that-ticked-me-off

FINAL RATING: 1.5 STARS

Where to begin?

First off, I suppose I should say that I wanted to read this book the moment I laid eyes on it in the bookstore. I bought it that same day and squealed as I took it home. Yes, I was that eager to read it.

Before I could do that, I had to get through City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, Clockwork Angel, Paranormalcy, and Supernaturally. Each of these books was exquisite and original, so maybe that's why this book sucked so much.

Oh, yes, and this review will c...more

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Apr 15, 2010 Brooke rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: i-own-a-copy, lovey-mushy-stuff, memory-loss, realistic-fiction

The story begins with a coin toss. Naomi lost. She had to go back and get the Camera from the Yearbook room at her school. She fell.

Naomi can't piece together the last four years of her life after slipping and hitting her head in a freak accident. She wakes in an ambulance with a stranger telling the paramedics he's her boyfriend, only she has no idea who he is. This boy turns out to be James, mysterious, with an even clouder past and some nasty rumours which may or may not be true.

Naomi is visi...more

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May 27, 2008 Lisa (lisaisbusynerding) added it

in a sentence: a suspicious fall down the school stairs leaves naomi with amnesia...which doesn't turn out to be SUCH a bad thing (at first).

naomi wakes up on her way to the hospital with the emo-hottie james, only to discover that she remembers nothing of the past 4 years of her life. she doesn't remember that her parents are divorced, she doesn't remember her best friend Will (who is adorably obsessed with making CD mixes), or her boyfriend Ace (hot jock). she struggles with the confusion of h...more in a sentence: a suspicious fall down the school stairs leaves naomi with amnesia...which doesn't turn out to be SUCH a bad thing (at first).

naomi wakes up on her way to the hospital with the emo-hottie james, only to discover that she remembers nothing of the past 4 years of her life. she doesn't remember that her parents are divorced, she doesn't remember her best friend Will (who is adorably obsessed with making CD mixes), or her boyfriend Ace (hot jock). she struggles with the confusion of having no recollection of her identity while others are trying to be patient with her along the way with nudges of encouragement. turns out, naomi is just fine not remembering who she is...for now.

there is lots of drama to go around, lots of built in mystery (having no memory and all), and great high school social commentary. it feels a little like shes invisible in that naomi has the opportunity to make herself whoever she wants because she has the freedom to let go of everything she can't remember. with this freedom comes the choice to let go of her frustrations, her regrets...but also the ability to play naive even when she's not.

Zevin does a great job of with the catch 22 of freedom and restraint with having no memory. the relationships naomi forms are confusing, yet understandable with her situation. the relationship with james is especially realistic to me - mainly so because of her explanation of his mental illness. even things she likes or doesn't like are up in the air, and naomi's frustration is palpable.

i really like the premise of the book, though it may seem a bit campy at first. Zevin really develops the plot and hooked me in. the family relationships and those with her friends are what really hold the book together, and what bring the novel full circle in the conclusion.

fave quote: "I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who wants to know all your stories" (244)

fix er up: i was slightly irritated with the way things were all neatly wrapped up with naomi and her family...but the ambiguity of her relationship with will was enough to leave it feeling more true to the rest of the book.
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Mar 21, 2008 Lucia rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult-fiction

If you happen to be one of those teens who just wants to forget what has happened the last few years, here is what you do: throw yourself down a flight of stairs!

Crazy I know! but this is a sweet book. Here is one of my favorite passages:

page 259:

"It happens, baby." Dad nodded and patted me on the hand and then he read my mind. "You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you di...more

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Feb 22, 2008 Gaby rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Feb 28, 2008 Lucy rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: people who like really, really, really good YA

Shelves: teen

Things would have been different if only Naomi had chosen tails. But she chose heads, and so she had to go back to get the yearbook camera. And so she slipped on the stairs and hit her head, and now she can't remember the last four years of her life.

She can't remember her boyfriend, Ace, or what she saw in him in the first place. She can't remember what happened to her parents' relationship. She can't remember all of the in-jokes she shared with her best friend in the world, Will Landsman. And s...more Things would have been different if only Naomi had chosen tails. But she chose heads, and so she had to go back to get the yearbook camera. And so she slipped on the stairs and hit her head, and now she can't remember the last four years of her life.

She can't remember her boyfriend, Ace, or what she saw in him in the first place. She can't remember what happened to her parents' relationship. She can't remember all of the in-jokes she shared with her best friend in the world, Will Landsman. And she can't remember James, or why she would never have kissed him.

It's hard to be a teenage amnesiac. It's even harder when you're trying to fit yourself back into a life you can't remember building for yourself. And for Naomi, rediscovering who she was is a challenge, but discovering who she wants to be may be even harder.

I love this book more than words can say. I seriously do. I love the honesty and generosity with which it treats all of its characters. Even Ace, the jock boyfriend, is treated fairly and honestly. He's a character who so easily could have been a stereotype, but he isn't here. He's a person, with depth and character.

I love the way Zevin develops James's character. It's honest, and it's realistic, and it's refreshing.

And I really can't tell you how much I adore William B. Landsman. I want him to be my best friend. I want him in my life. I want to share nicknames with him, and in jokes. I want to listen to his mixes. I want his friendship. He's a wonderful, complex, developed character. I am half in love with him, and I know he's fictional, and I really wish he existed and I knew him.

I also love the way the book explores how sometimes we lock ourselves into life paths and reactions and directions because that's how we've always reacted to certain situations. Things we make harder on ourselves because we always have, and sometimes it's too hard to think about things in a new light.

And finally, it's beautifully written. The voice is powerful and realized, and resonates in your head. You'll want to know Naomi, too.(less)

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Feb 04, 2008 Caroline Potterf rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: young adults, girls, romantics who like good stories :)

Recommended to Caroline by: I saw it at Borders

There are many reviews of this book, and I agree with most of them.

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac was a good book in general. I really enjoyed it. But to tell the truth, the inside flap was written better than the story.

This book is a story of a girl who gets amnesia - and for the first part of the book, cannot remember anything for the past four years. This means she doesn't remember her best friend Will Landsman, her boyfriend Ace, or her parent's divorce. I won't try to spoil anything if you i...more

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Jun 30, 2010 Lisa Vegan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, novel, young-adult, gr-author, gr-groups-buddies, orphaned-and-quasi-orphaned-kids, reviewed

I wasn’t expecting this book to be funny, but much of it was quite amusing.

I’ve always been interested in amnesia. To me, we are our memories. If we lose our memories are we the same person? Do we like and dislike the same things/people, have the same beliefs? It’s one reason I was so interested in reading this book, and I think the story did a good job of addressing this issue.

This book had been languishing on my to-read shelf so I’m very grateful that the YA Book Club here at Goodreads chose i...more

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Dec 11, 2007 Kate rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: young-adult, the-100-in-2007, books-i-own, fiction

I admit. The title got me. I'm a sucker for a clever title. And the book was worthy of the title.

Naomi is a typical popular teenage girl, dating the star of the school tennis team, inexplicably best friends with a yearbook nerd, and all around school royalty when she loses a bet to said yearbook nerd and has to go back to the school to get a camera they've left behind. Coming back down the stairs, she falls and hits her head, and awakes to discover she's forgotten absolutely everything about her...more

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Sep 07, 2007 Abby Johnson rated it 5 of 5 stars

What if you were given a blank slate? One day you wake up and you can't remember the past four years. You have no idea what your tastes are, who your best friends are... Would you still love the people you thought you loved before? Would you find that there were things you liked out of habit that now have no appeal? Would you want to find out everything you could to recreate the you that you were? Or would you start over?

Naomi Parker has been given a blank slate. She fell down the steps at her...more

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Apr 02, 2008 Meghan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya

So. Some of the passages were really just lovely. But overall this gets the three-star treatment 'cause just, you know, I felt like it easily could have been reimagined as a book without an amnesiac protaganist. The best-covered themes had the amnesia running sidecar to them, and certain aspects of the memory loss are just blown by with such a quickness that you got the feeling well, she really wants to be telling this growing-up story. And it's a good growing up story! It's actually a really go...more

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Oct 20, 2007 Lalitha rated it 2 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Teens 9th and up

Shelves: teen

I didn't find this book as appealing as her earlier book, "Elsewhere." The protagonist, Naomi Porter, was barely likeable, and came off as extremely selfish, cranky, and just generally bitchy for no apparent reason. I'm not even sure why this book is called "Memoirs" since we get very little insight into her amnesia (she loses her memory and has to deal with the resulting high school drama, or lack of). I also disliked how there was very little resolution w/the mother-daughter issue--it's almost...more

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Feb 10, 2009 Adriana rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya-friendship, ya-self-identity-family, ya-social-situations-family-divorce, ya-romance

I think to sum it up this one was good, but not great. It just didn't wow me. It's a good teen read with a protagonist who was probably already grappling with self-identity issues before falling down some steps accidentally and getting temporary amnesia. She loses the last four years of her life, which is when her parents divorced, she got a boyfriend, she grew an interest in tennis, and also developed a close relationship with a guy-best friend. After the fall she has no idea who she is anymore...more

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Jun 15, 2008 Hirondelle rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Hirondelle by: Hallie

Shelves: young-adult

I know I should not have started reading this just as soon as I finished reading Elsewhere, I should have rationed it, but could not resist just reading the first couple pages and from then on, I was hooked. So the good news is I found a new favorite author, the bad news is that after a couple days I now only have one more book of hers to read ( write more, please).

It´s a great book about being a teenager, about choices and love and relationships. It could use more dogs ( I know I should not hav...more

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Sep 26, 2007 Judith rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: youngadultfiction

Disappointing so far. The amnesia just seems to be a not-terribly-well executed device for a "nasty girl turned nice" story. I'm hoping it will improve, because I was a huge fan of "Elsewhere" but so far the amnesia is not convincingly realised--it's very pick and choose what Naomi can remember, and she makes references to things she simply wouldn't know about if she's lost the last four years--and anyway, I'm not terribly interested in her. I don't like her very much, which I don't have to to l...more

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Mar 13, 2009 Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was such a good book!!!!!!! I would recommend it to one and all!

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Feb 05, 2010 Kristen rated it 5 of 5 stars

It is really good so far, I wish I could be reading it all the time, it is so hard to put down!

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Sep 22, 2011 Amna rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is the first English novel I ever read in my entire life. It was a good book, but it was one of those books I only read once. My problem with this book is that I couldn't understand the main character. Honesty, she was kind of annoying to me. I read this book a long time ago, but recently I watched the Japanese movie adaptation of the book. (note: I love Asian dramas, serials, books, and movies -especially Japanese and Korean). I thought the movie was ok, but it confirmed my "dislike" of th...more

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Feb 14, 2010 WilowRaven added it · review of another edition

Shelves: own

One little coin flip and her life will never be the same. After a head injury, Naomi must face the fact that 4 years of her life are missing to her. She doesn't remember her best friend, her boyfriend or why her parents are divorced. She can't recall why she was going to drop her photography class or how she came to be so passionate about being the editor of the school yearbook. Life moves on however, and so does Naomi.[return]I absolutely loved this book. Every character Zevin created was inten...more

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May 16, 2013 Allie Hoskins rated it 4 of 5 stars

Great plot! I loved how intriguing it was to watch her try to figure out her life with 4 years of it suddenly gone. Will was BY FAR my favorite character! His spunky, smart personality kept me smiling. James, however....he deserves a punch in the throat. Why are jerk-y, "mysterious" guys so...CLICHE-ISH in these kind of stories? I mean, come on. James was pretty much a jerk. And their "love", persay, was QUITE spontaneous, if you ask me. "Sure, I've known you for like 2 months but I'm totally in...more

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