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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780374349462
ISBN number: 0374349460
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: August 21, 2007
Publishing house: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: August 21, 2007
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Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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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 very 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.
After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances.
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Everyone went nuts over Zevin's very first novel Elsewhere. So naturally I stayed away and waited for her second. I was not disappointed. Naomi falls down the stairs, bumps her head, and loses the last four years. Unfortunately the last four years include her parents' divorce, her insipid tennis star boyfriend Ace, and her best friend and yearbook co-editor Will "Coach" Landsman. Zevin's writing maintains a cheerfully slower pace than so many of her contemporaries, and I liked Naomi's voice. She begins by telling us, "Above all, mine is a love story. And like most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma." Good start. Naomi doesn't rush things trying to find out about her past. She slips back into her life as unobtrusively as is humanly possible when everyone around you knows all about you but you don't know the very first thing about them. She gives poor Ace a fighting chance even though he's mind-numbingly boring. She falls in love with James because she wants to and because he needs her. Best of all she remembers Will and something she knew all along. Well done, girl.
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Have you ever wanted to just forget the past, start clean? Or reinvent yourself? This is what happens to Naomi when she falls down the steps at her high school. She doesn't remember her friends, her boyfriend, basically the last four years of her life. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin is a truly entertaining and moving story. It's shocking the things that Naomi forgets and then has to learn all over again. Secrets about her family, secrets about her friends. It all becomes a little easier after she meets James, a lost soul like herself. But James has some big secrets in his past too. Secrets big enough to keep them apart. And what about Will, Naomi's best friend? What is he hiding? Read to find out!
I really enjoyed this book. I had been wanting to read it forever and it was worth the wait. Naomi is a sympathetic character but not perfect. I like characters that are flawed. It is true to real life. Naomi doesn't make the best decisions but that is also true to real life. I also love Will, her best friend. The supporting characters, including James, add a lot of depth and emotion to the story. It wouldn't be the same book without them.
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I read Zevin's _Elsewhere_ at the urging of my (then) 12 year-old niece and was a little surprised to like it as much as I did. I generally love YA novels, but the premise put me off until I'd let it suck me in. I'd worried about icky sweetness, but I could have saved my energy. It's off-center and very good.
I happened across _Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac_ about six months later, and I just loved it. Zevin does reality even better than she does the unreality of _Elsewhere_. Well, I assume it's reality. I find good parents and functional, if broken, families to carry a fantasy air for me, but these felt like they could exist, fairly near our planet, too. Beyond the loving parents, though, it's the portrayals of the teenage amnesiac and her peers that sold me on the book. I knew a James once, although it was an even messier situation and lacked a happy ending. I'm pretty sure Naomi's walked this earth, too, or does in some quantum variant, along with Will. They're smart, creative, energetic, good kids who are the objects on which life practices its blows. Their responses range from errors to misunderstandings to loving connection. They're people living a story and people you want to follow through that story. I liked them.
Thanks to Zevin for this good read. I'm definitely passing it on to my (now) 13 year old (going on l7 year old) niece. Good stuff.
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it was a good book, and had a good message of finding yourself and who you want to be. it shows a different side to what you might think your life might be like if you were a teenage girl who forgot everything that happened in the last 4 years of her life.
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Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter woul've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.
I read Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin , and loved it. It's a fun book about a girl who suffers from amnesia and can't remember the last four years of her life.
At the beginning of the book, Naomi Porter and her best friend Will, co-editors of the school yearbook, are in the school parking lot. They decide with a coin toss who should go back to school to retrieve a camera. Naomi loses, so she has to go back, but trips down the stairs and hits her head. As a result, she suffers from amnesia: she can't remember anything beyond sixth grade, anything from the last four years of her life.
Naomi feels like she's a different person from the one she cannot remember. She cannot remember her best friend, her parents' divorce, or her father's fiancèe. She cannot understand why she even liked her boyfriend in the very first place.
The main themes of the book are identity and change. As a matter of fact, the novel is divided into three sections: "I was", "I am", and "I will". Naomi's reflections on who she is and who has she become reflect an identity crisis, triggered by a loss of her most recent memories.
I liked this book very much. Following Naomi's love story was fun and refreshing. The outcome might not be the most original, as I was able to anticipate the ending from the middle of the book on. But still, a fun book, one I'd recommend to lovers of YA fiction.
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