Book Talk: Just One Year by Gayle Forman

Just One Year by Gayle Forman

Just One Year
by Gayle Forman
Call Number YA FOR
WVPL - BB

Did you read Just One Day back in January? Here's the story you've been waiting for: Willem's.

Willem wakes up in a hospital. He's disoriented, confused, but knows he has to get back to something. He's forgetting something. The details start to come back and he has to get back to her, but he can't remember where she is. So he tries to find her, gives up, and tries again with help. Luck, fate, accidents. That's how he's lived. Is that how he should continue living now?


This is not the story of what happened at the end of Just One Day. Instead, this is the story of Willem and what happened when he disappeared, stranding Allyson/Lulu and sparking her journey. For him, his journey is slightly different. He's searching for her, but at the same time, he realizes he's searching for himself. Willem will travel to Mexico (so close to her!), India, and home again trying to learn about himself and the family he came from over the course of a year.


A portion of this review is on our Shelfari page here.

Just One Day by Gayle Forman (Who visits THURSDAY!)

Just One Day by Gayle Forman

Just One Day
by Gayle Forman
Call Number: YA FOR
WVPL - BB (coming soon)

Europe. Traveling. The summer before college. Anything can happen, except Allyson doesn't want to change. She didn't want the bob haircut her best friend talked her into and she doesn't exactly want life to reinvent itself.

Except there's the boy. There's also this thing called "Guerrilla Will" which features the mysterious boy in a Shakespeare play that takes the crowd with them on scene changes. Allyson and her friend follow and the mysterious boy gives her a coin.

Chance, luck, or fate, throws the mysterious boy, Willem, with Allyson and for one day, she agrees to follow him to Paris, the real Paris and enjoy Europe. There are ups and downs, adventures and action, but for Allyson, it is a whirlwind day that is so perfect, that maybe she can extend that day further.

Except Willem disappears without a word.

Can one day really change a person? For Allyson, something about that one day did and she spends one year, with a little help from  Shakespeare and "accidents," facing truths known and unknown, learning about herself, and questioning the limits of her life.


Author Gayle Forman will be visiting Wissahickon Valley Public Library in Blue Bell on Thursday, January 24 at 4:30 PM to talk about her works, including Just One Day. Request it now and stop by to meet this NY Times Best Selling Author of If I Stay and Where She Went.