Waiting On Wednesday: Where It Began

Title:  Where It Began
Author:  Ann Redisch Stampler
Release date:  March 5, 2012

Gabby Gardiner wakes up in a hospital bed looking like a cautionary ad for drunk driving and lacking a single memory of the accident that landed her there. What she can remember, in frank and sardonic detail, is the year leading up to the accident.

As she takes us through her transformation from invisible girl to on-trend Girl Who Dates Billy Nash (aka Most Desirable Boy Ever), she is left wondering: Why is Billy suddenly distancing himself from her? What do her classmates know that Gabby herself does not? Who exactly was in the car that night? And why is Gabby left alone to take the fall?

Putting the pieces together will take every ounce of Gabby’s strength. As she peels back the layers of her life, she begins to realize that her climb up the status ladder has been as intoxicating as it has been morally complex…and that nothing about her life is what she has imagined it to be.

I first heard about this one back at the Simon & Schuster lunch at BEA and I have been dying to read it ever since.  It reminds me of the book Forget You by Jennifer Echols which is one of my all time favorites.  I really just love all books that deal with memory loss.  =)

What are you waiting on this Wednesday?

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  1. I’m looking forward to reading Where It Began as well! (It was my WoW pick last week!) The cover is so pretty and the premise sounds like something I’d really enjoy too. It also reminded me of Jennifer Echols’ Forget You when I first heard about it… Great WoW pick! 🙂

  2. This sounds like Breaking Beautiful in terms of an accident causing memory loss, but here it’s like it’s the opposite, she become popular.

    It would be interesting to see how it’s handled!