First published 2009
Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox opens her eyes after what her family tells her was a year and a half in a coma. A terrible accident stole her memories and nearly took her life. Now she must rebuild herself from fragments. Her parents watch her carefully as she relearns basic tasks and tries to piece together who she was before. But the harder Jenna searches for her past, the more questions arise. Flashes of memory surface that don't quite fit the story her family tells. She remembers things that feel real, yet something about them seems wrong. The accident that changed everything remains a mystery, and Jenna begins to wonder if the memories returning to her actually belong to someone else. As she digs deeper into her forgotten life, Jenna must confront an unsettling possibility about her identity and what it truly means to be herself.
Genres: science-fiction, mystery, contemporary, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
303 pages · Paperback · The House of Books
Content warnings: medical-trauma, mental-illness