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Fracture (2012) (edit title/settings)

by Megan Miranda (Author) (edit contributors)

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By the time Delaney Maxwell was pulled from a Maine lake’s icy waters by her best friend, Decker Phillips, her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead.

But somehow Delaney survived—despite the brain scans that show irreparable damage. Everyone wants Delaney... read more

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Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine - despite... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Eleven minutes passed before Delaney Maxwell was pulled from the icy waters of a Maine lake by her best friend Decker Phillips. By then her heart had stopped beating. Her brain had stopped working. She was dead. And yet she somehow defied medical precedent to come back seemingly fine - despite the scans that showed significant brain damage. Everyone wants Delaney to be all right, but she knows she's far from normal. Pulled by strange sensations she can't control or explain, Delaney finds herself drawn to the dying. Is her altered brain now predicting death, or causing it?

Then Delaney meets Troy Varga, who recently emerged from a coma with similar abilities. At first she's reassured to find someone who understands the strangeness of her new existence, but Delaney soon discovers that Troy's motives aren't quite what she thought. Is their gift a miracle, a freak of nature-or something much more frightening?

For fans of best-sellers like Before I Fall and If I Stay, this is a fascinating and heart-rending story about love and friendship and the fine line between life and death.

Characters edit see section history

  • Delaney Maxwell: Main Character, brain-damaged because she fell through the ice and was left under water for eleven minutes.
  • Decker Phillips: Delaney's best friend. Saves Delaney's life but feels guilt over being the reason she needed to be saved
  • Troy Varga: the new friend? or the foe? Has strong views on death and dying.. and tries to force said views on Delaney
  • Tara Spano: girl Decker is dating; Delaney has never liked her
  • Janna Levine: Carson's younger sister; nerdy; second best in class.
  • Carson Levine: one of the group of people Delaney and Decker hang out with; Delaney made out with him at her birthday party and was caught by Decker; Carson is a player
  • Dr. Logan: The doctor who Delaney sees about her accident.
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  • “I knew it was Troy. I just know, like i could sense him. Like I could hear his voice Whispering, "Delany." into my ear, like a mythological Siren, luring me.”
  • “Like me, Mom understood that 'nothing' could be worse than anything real. Like the dark. 'Nothing' can be the most terrifying thing of all.”
  • “I heard the crack, the ice weakening, the fracture chasing me.”

First Sentence edit see section history

The first time I died, I didn't see God.

Table of Contents edit see section history

chapters 1-20
acknowledgement

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Megan Miranda (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Walker & Company
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 17, 2012
ISBN: 9780802723093
Page Count: 272

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Before I Fall
  • If I Stay
  • Where She Went

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