The more Cody searches, the more seeming clues she finds. It doesn’t make sense that Meg would make this kind of choice, so Cody doesn’t simply pack up Meg’s stuff but, instead, goes through her things and her computer and interrogates her roommates in order to solve what now looks like a mystery. However, as she makes her way there, Cody is suspicious about why Meg would end such an enviable life. Hoping to spare them some pain, Cody agrees. Her emotional state also opens up unhealed wounds about her absent father and her less than ideal mother.Īfter the service, Meg’s parents ask Cody to travel to Meg’s college apartment to pack up the few things she left there. Now, Cody is dealing not only with the death of her best friend, but also with her feelings of hopelessness about still being stuck in a town she can’t escape because she can’t afford college. Although Meg and Cody had been close since their childhood in a small poor town in the Pacific Northwest, Meg’s academic talent allowed her to get a scholarship to a college in Seattle – a move that necessarily put some distance into the relationship. Since then, Cody, Meg’s parents, and the police have been receiving time-delayed emails from Meg that try to explain her decision to end her life. Meg killed herself by checking into a motel, leaving a large tip for the maid, and then drinking an industrial poison.
Eighteen-year-old Cody is suffering through yet another memorial service for her best friend, Meg Garcia. As a quick warning: the novel has been described as too graphic in its descriptions of suicidal ideation for some readers. During the course of the novel, various possible motivations are presented and explored – but none offers a complete answer to this “mystery” because, in the end, there is no mystery to solve, but just a death to mourn. The young adult novel I Was Here (2015) by bestselling author Gayle Forman tells the story of a young woman grieving the suicide of her best friend by trying to solve the apparent mystery of why a seemingly happy person would kill herself.
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