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?
Memory loss books are always fun to read, if written well! I really enjoyed Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin. Great pick! And the cover is so pretty. 🙂
Sophia
My WoW 🙂
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! 🙂
The cover of this book is so pretty! I want to read this one as well.
Happy Reading.
I’ve got this book on my TBR pile and it actually reminds me of Before I Fall!
A very beautiful cover!
Looks like a great read – I’ll have to check it out.
Aislynn
Oh that’s a great choice Katie.
Great pick! I’m looking forward to reading this one too. It sounds like it will be great.
oh this sounds great! Can’t wait to read it!
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!