Zhang, Amy

Seventeen-year-old Ocean Wu moves to New York City to start college, but she defers her enrollment, keeping it a secret from her immigrant mother, and instead uses the time to deal with her ambivalence about her place in the world.

For as long as eighteen-year-old Micah Carter can remember, he and Janie have been "soul mates," even though outgoing Janie loves art while shy Micah loves music. Their relationship was perfect, until the day Janie was assaulted, though she didn't tell anyone. After a fire consumes Janie's house, no one knows if she is alive or dead. Micah, questioned by the police and his friends, starts questioning how much he really knew about Janie, and whether or not he and she could ever be more than they were.

"Micah and Janie have the perfect friendship--as long as no one finds out about it. But then Janie goes missing and everything Micah thought he knew about his best friend is colored with doubt"--OCLC.

"One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life"--Provided by publisher.

An unnamed narrator describes how high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree to commit suicide. As Liz hovers near death, her friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital remembering her in flashbacks that count down to her accident.