One cold fall day, senior high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car right into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking tale is told with a amazing and unpredicted narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz’s close friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings alive. This riveting debut will appeal to followers of Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver, and 13 EXPLANATIONS WHY, by Jay Asher.

“On the day Liz Emerson attempts to die, that they had reviewed Newton’s laws of movement in physics class. After that, about Falling into Place after school, she put them into practice by operating her Mercedes off the road.” Why do Liz Emerson determine that this world will be better off without her? Why do she give up? The nonlinear book pieces together the brief and devastating life of Meridian High’s most well-known junior gal. Mass, acceleration, momentum, force-Liz didn’t understand it in physics, and even while her Mercedes hurtles toward the tree, she doesn’t understand it today. How do we influence one another? Just how do our activities reverberate? Exactly what does it mean to be always a friend? To like someone? To be always a little girl? Or a mom? Is life truly more than cause and effect? Amy Zhang’s haunting and common story will charm to supporters of Lauren Oliver, Gayle Forman, and Jay Asher.