Excellent YA by Excellent Author

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Gayle Forman has returned to YA and I'm so happy (though I really enjoyed her adult debut, Leave Me, as well). I Have Lost My Way is a multi-perspective novel taking course over the course of one day, telling the story of how three lost individuals find each other and connect, as well as the back story that has led them to the place of isolation they feel now. Forman has a writing style that makes her books impossible to put down. It's not quite lyrical writing, but I find her style more literary seeming than most I encounter in YA. The characters in this book are at really quiet moments of crises- their struggles are internal and it takes the whole of the book to really reveal what they are wrestling with. It's a quick read with short chapters, but it has great emotional resonance and will definitely appeal to fans of the author and others.