Although Meg and Cody had been close since their childhood in a small poor town in the Pacific Northwest, Meg’s academic talent allowed her to get a scholarship to a college in Seattle – a move that necessarily put some distance into the relationship. Since then, Cody, Meg’s parents, and the police have been receiving time-delayed emails from Meg that try to explain her decision to end her life. Meg killed herself by checking into a motel, leaving a large tip for the maid, and then drinking an industrial poison. Eighteen-year-old Cody is suffering through yet another memorial service for her best friend, Meg Garcia. As a quick warning: the novel has been described as too graphic in its descriptions of suicidal ideation for some readers. During the course of the novel, various possible motivations are presented and explored – but none offers a complete answer to this “mystery” because, in the end, there is no mystery to solve, but just a death to mourn. The young adult novel I Was Here (2015) by bestselling author Gayle Forman tells the story of a young woman grieving the suicide of her best friend by trying to solve the apparent mystery of why a seemingly happy person would kill herself.
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