However, life takes a drastic turn for Mia as all the happiness she felt came tumbling when her entire family is involved in a ghastly accident. ‘If I Stay’ follows the story of 17-year-old Mia, who has an ordinary school life, a handsome boyfriend, caring parents, and a wonderful baby brother. The idea to create the young adult fiction novel ‘ If I Stay‘ was inspired by a tragedy that left an entire family of Gayle’s friends and their children dead. Climax: The climax occurs when Adam plays Mia a song she was familiar with, and she starts having flashbacks and finally feels herself in her body.Literary Period: Post-modernist/Contemporary Period.Published: If I Stay was published in 2009 by Dutton Penguin.Book Inspiration: If I Stay was inspired by actual events of an accident that claimed the lives of Gayle Forman’s friends.With the novel written in the first-person perspective, one could feel the weight of the choice Mia has to take.
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