Memoirs of A Teenage Amnesiac

Who are you at 16, if you can't remember anything about your life since you were 12? A brilliant exploration of identity and love for YA readers, by the bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fragments of the last three-and-a-half years of her life. She discovers that she has a tennis-champion boyfriend but can't remember him, is co-editor of the yearbook with a quirky guy who wears a smoking jacket, her parents are divorced, and she apparently hates her mother. She has friends who simply don't seem that attractive any more and, despite having meticulously kept a diary during the now-lost years, she only wrote about what she ate every day in it! But when a girl loses three-and-a-half years, she gets a chance to reinvent herself. After all, who is to say that everything has to stay the same? *** “Zevin is completely convincing on the intensity of early passion and the way it can evaporate in the rays of something new, and she has a light touch with the deceptively shallow anguish of adolescence.” —New York Times Book Review “Zevin is just a great writer, gets all the details right.” —The San Francisco Chronicle “Sensitive, joyful. Pulled by the heart-bruising love story, readers will stop to contemplate irresistible questions.” —Starred, Booklist “A quiet exploration of identity and self-realization that is simultaneously thought provoking and entertaining.” —VOYA “Unique. Will be well received by teens.” —Kirkus Reviews “Honest and complex characterization grounds a thoughtful, suspenseful examination of memory and identity.” —The Horn Book “Zevin cooks up an entertaining love story, teens will identify with her vulnerability and her heightened feelings of alienation. And fans of psychological dramas won't want to put this book down.” —Publishers Weekly “A compelling read with intelligent dialogue that's also touching and funny.” —School Library Journal “I would definitely recommend this book to my high school students, especially teen girls.” —The ALAN Review “Zevin blends romance, changing friendships, and familial dysfunction with themes of chance, loss, and choice, and the result is a quiet exploration of identity and self-realization.” —VOYA