I Was Here

 When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything-so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg-s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she dis  When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated.

She and Meg shared everything-so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg-s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there-s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington.

About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg-s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can-t open-until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend-s death gets thrown into question. Â Â is Gayle Forman at her finest, a taut, emotional, and ultimately redemptive story about redefining the meaning of family and finding a way to move forward even in the face of unspeakable loss.