Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin was one of the advance reader copies that I got at the conference I attended. I was VERY anxious to read it because I loved Elsewhere, which was also written by this author. This book did not disappoint me - I had a hard time putting it down. I think the book description at the front of the book does a great job of setting the mood of the book so I will include that here:
"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 understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her “Chief.” She’d know about her mom’s new family. She’d know about her dad’s fiancée. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn’t have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads."
Memoirs of Teenage Amnesiac should be out in mid-August. Happy reading! If you read it, comment on this post and let me know how you liked it. :)
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