One summer morning, twelve-year-old Edward Adler, his beloved older brother, his parents, and 183 other passengers board a flight in Newark headed for Los Angeles. Among them is a Wall Street wunderkind, a young woman coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy, an injured vet returning from Afghanistan, a septuagenarian business tycoon, and a free-spirited woman running away from her controlling husband. And then, tragically, the plane crashes. Edward is the sole survivor. Edward's story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place for himself in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a piece of him has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers. But then he makes an unexpected discovery--one that will lead him to the answers of some of life's most profound questions: When you've lost everything, how do find yourself? How do you discover your purpose? What does it mean not just to survive, but to truly live? An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.
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- this book was totally fine/meh. It was hard to care about the various passenger's point of views: there were a lot of characters to keep track of and we knew they were all going to die, so why care?
- what was the purpose of their points of view? Just to see the variety of people at a variety points of their life?
- Edward was obviously going through so much trauma and grief, that is really the crux of this book, yet we do not see a whole bunch of on-page processing there. To me this book laughed emotion and depth
- why did he cling to Shay? Why would they fall in love?
- why were all the letters important to him? This element did not happen until over the 65% progress mark, so it was too late for me to care about that
- the book overall is forgettable, both while reading and even two weeks later
- I agree with one reviewer that the emotions were not here
- a lot was placed on Shay, I would have almost liked a few point-of-view chapters with her dealing with and helping Edward
- I did like that Edward started to look ahead more, but I would have liked more on-page closure and dealing with his grief
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