If I Stay: Blog #3

My group is reading the novel If I Stay by Gayle Forman. In this novel the main character is a seventeen year old girl named Mia. Her and her family has just been in a fatal car accident and she is the only one left but barely holding on. The novel takes the reader back to many events in their close-knit family’s life. As the story plays out, Mia soon realizes she will have to choose to stay living with her loving grandparents, her best friend, and her devoted boyfriend. However, she also realizes she would be left without her parents and younger brother whom she adores. This novel makes the reader question what they would do in a situation like the tragic one Mia is in.