I Have Lost My Way (Hardcover)
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Staff Reviews
Forman has delivered one of those books that wake the reader up in the middle of the night wondering how it all ends leading to finishing the book at three in the morning. Freya, Nathaniel , and Harun’s back stories are all extremely different but they are all in the same place now….LOST! Nathaniel can’t find a way to fit in the world after become almost feral living with his father, Harun can’t tell his family about his sexual orientation, and Freya who has always done everything correctly has lost her singing voice. A freak accident pits them together and forms a bond helping each in their own way to cope with their lives. Told in alternating chapters the dilemma facing each character is slowly revealed helping understand how they became “lost.” Forman’s book will resonate for adolescents as well as many adults.
— Shirley MullinDescription
The New York Times bestseller from the author of If I Stay
“Heartwrenching…If you are ready to be emotionally wrecked yet again, you are in luck.” – Hypable
A fateful accident draws three strangers together over the course of a single day:
Freya who has lost her voice while recording her debut album.
Harun who is making plans to run away from everyone he has ever loved.
Nathaniel who has just arrived in New York City with a backpack, a desperate plan, and nothing left to lose.
As the day progresses, their secrets start to unravel and they begin to understand that the way out of their own loss might just lie in helping the others out of theirs.
An emotionally cathartic story of losing love, finding love, and discovering the person you are meant to be, I Have Lost My Way is bestselling author Gayle Forman at her finest.
“A beautifully written love song to every young person who has ever moved through fear and found themselves on the other side.” – Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming
About the Author
Gayle Forman is an award-winning, internationally bestselling author and journalist. She is the author of Just One Day and Just One Year, and the companion e-novella Just One Night, as well as the New York Times bestsellers If I Stay and Where She Went. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughters.
Praise For…
"In Forman’s wonderfully deft hands, this story of friendship, love, loss and redemption becomes so much more. I Have Lost My Way is a beautifully written love song to every young person who has ever moved through fear and found themselves on the other side."--Jacqueline Woodson, author of the National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming
* "Elegant and understated . . . A celebration of the lifesaving power of human connection."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
* "Stunning doesn't even begin to say it."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Tightly woven and, in places, heartbreaking, this is a masterful exploration of human emotion."--Booklist
"An absolute gem."--School Library Journal
"A stirring reminder of the great risks of isolation and the immense solace and power that community-even with virtual strangers-can bring." --Horn Book magazine
"The beloved author returns to the genre that made her famous."--Cosmopolitan
"Heartwrenching . . . If you are ready to be emotionally wrecked yet again, you are in luck."--Hypable
A Seventeen magazine best YA book of 2018