Together they must find a way to survive a tragedy with no comforting, set answers.ġ. But when Eli Gage, a witness to the original suicide, comes to Officer Areno’s funeral, his own father killed in action in Iraq, he and Rowan find a connection to each other they hadn’t had before. Grief, fractured and unpredictable, rules their lives now. Rowan’s mother, wracked with her own guilt and sorrow over failing to save her husband, stops going to work and collects stray cats for comfort. Rowan can’t understand how her father could choose to leave her, and acts out, pushing away friends and taking risks with her safety. As the media seizes on Nick’s failure to stop the suicide, he slides deeper and deeper into an irreversible depression, until finally, the unthinkable happens, and he commits suicide as well. But when her father, Nick, a decorated police officer, tries and fails to stop a tortured young man from leaping from an overpass to his death, everything in Rowan’s life begins to fall apart. Rowan Areno is a normal sixteen-year-old trying to walk the difficult line between rebellion and responsibility, finding her own path and trying to do right by her loving and slightly strict parents. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. This reading group guide for Me Since You includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club.
Can she learn to trust, hope, and believe in happiness again? Reading Group Guide If the crime video never went viral, maybe she could have saved her mother, grandmother-and herself-from the endless replay of heartache and grief.įinding a soul mate in Eli, a witness to the crime who is haunted by losses of his own, Rowan begins to see there is no simple, straightforward path to healing wounded hearts. If she had known, on that Friday in March when she cut school, that a random stranger’s shocking crime would have traumatic consequences, she never would have left campus. After: everything she once believed has been destroyed in the wake of a shattering tragedy, and every day is there to be survived. Before: she was a normal sixteen-year-old-a little too sheltered by her police officer father and her mother.
That’s how Rowan Areno sees her life now. Laura Wiess captures the visceral emotion of a girl’s journey from innocence to devastating loss and, ultimately, to a strange and unexpected kind of understanding-in this beautiful and painfully honest new novel.Īre there any answers when someone you love makes a tragic choice?īefore and After. This is the first book in a very long time that made me say, ‘Wish I’d written this’” (Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank, on Such a Pretty Girl). “Laura Wiess’s masterful prose kept me turning the pages.
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