沒有人能像蓋兒.芙曼(Gayle Forman)這樣描寫愛情,在彼此熱衷的事物裡找回自我,從搖滾到獨立書店。當你不放棄他人,奇蹟總是意外降臨。電影《如果我留下》(IF I stay)原著作者蓋兒.芙曼,最新青春小說。
十九歲的阿隆(Aaron Stein)曾經相信書就是奇蹟,可現在他才不相信這種事。媽媽和哥哥接連拋下他和老爸,老爸深受打擊,逐漸委靡。而阿隆的朋友也都紛紛離家去讀大學,只剩他和老爸守著一間搖搖欲墜的二手書店,往日風光不再,這小鎮似乎沒人在看書了。
阿隆找到機會,索性把整間書店轉賣,換取最後生機。萬念俱灰下,阿隆遇上以前的同學查德(Chad Santos),查德雖然坐著輪椅,卻生性樂觀,更讓阿隆看見對人生的美好想像,一掃阿隆的陰霾與厭世,而這時阿隆遇上美麗而勇敢的音樂家漢娜(Hannah)⋯⋯阿隆能否勇於面對人生,走出失落,不再徬徨?
A heartbreaking story about finding yourself and your people, from the bestselling author of If I Stay, a major film starring Chloë Grace Moretz. For fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, John Green and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
'I got this whole-body feeling . . . it was like a message from future me to present me, telling me that in some way we weren’t just bound to happen, that we had, in some sense, already happened. It felt . . . inevitable.'
So far, the inevitable hasn’t worked out so well for Aaron Stein.
While his friends have gone to college and moved on with their lives, Aaron’s been left behind in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, running a failing bookshop with his dad, Ira. What he needs is a lucky break, the good kind of inevitable.
And then he meets Hannah. Incredible Hannah – magical, musical, brave and clever. Could she be the answer? And could they – their relationship, their meeting – possibly be the inevitable Aaron’s been waiting for?