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Publisher Description
When Jessica wakes up from a coma, she has no memories of her life before the accident at her family’s bison ranch. As she struggles to reconnect with her family and friends, she experiences all the signs of traumatic brain injury—confusion, sadness, fear and rage. Returning to school is a nightmare—especially when she overhears someone say he thinks she is faking her amnesia. When a new friend presents an alternative to staying in her old life, Jessica must confront the reality of what it means to leave her past behind.
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"My name is Jessica, and I am fifteen years old. And thanks to a bison bull named Ramses on their our ranch, my brain is mush." Jessica's memories are a blur after she awakens in a hospital from a coma, unable to recognize herself, her family, or her friends. After returning home, Jessica is more comfortable around her playful younger brother, Stephen, than her saddened parents and friends, whose reactions are realistically portrayed. Exploring her old text messages and social media history, Jessica investigates "the Girl in the Mirror": who she used to be. Her past self seems eerily perfect and contented, which starts to make her suspicious why was she in the bison pen? And does she really want to know? Debut author St. Jean delicately and thoroughly explores the internal life of a character suffering from amnesia, detailing Jessica's feelings of separation from herself and the weight of others' expectations through an introspective first-person narrative. The mystery surrounding Jessica's accident and a growing fear for what she will discover will keep readers invested in her story. Ages 12 up.
