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* ALA Best Books for Young Adults
* IRA Young Adult Choices
* Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library
* A 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year
* Arizona Grand Canyon Young Readers Master List
* Missouri Gateway Readers Award
* Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
* Rhode Island Children's Book Award
* Tennessee Intermediate Volunteer State Book Award


주인공인 나오미는 입양아이지만 별 어려움 없이 살아가는 예쁜 10대입니다. 졸업앨범의 편집을 맡고 있는 그녀는 카메라를 구하려다 사고로 계단에서 구르는 바람에 기억 상실을 겪게 됩니다. 과거의 모든 것이 아니라 13세부터 지금까지 4년간의 기억이 사라져 버린 것입니다. 엠뷸런스를 함께 타고 온 제임스는 의사에게 자신을 남자친구라고 소개했지만 그 역시 누군지 기억이 나지 않습니다. 집으로 돌아온 나오미는 자신을 둘러싸고 있는 일상과 인물들이 낮설고 혼란스럽습니다. 엄마와 아빠가 이혼했다는 것, 엄마는 다른 사람과 살고 있고 아빠는 나이 많은 댄스 강사와 결혼을 앞두고 있다는 것, 자신에게는 테니스 선수인 에이스 라는 멋진 남자친구가 있다는 것, 그리고 무엇보다 그 남자친구와 결별을 앞두고 있었다는 것... 그녀 앞에 펼쳐지는 이런 혼란스러운 상황들을 인정하기가 쉽지 않습니다만 졸업앨범의 공동 편집을 맡고 있는 윌이 나오미가 기억을 되찾을 수 있도록 도움을 준다는 것이 그나마 위안입니다. 하지만 윌은 앨범제작에 흥미를 잃은 나오미를 떠나고, 나오미가 마음 속으로 호감을 갖게 되었던 제임스와도 결별하고, 에이스도 그녀를 떠났습니다. 이제 나오미는 어떻게 이런 현실을 헤쳐 나가야 할까요?

10대의 복잡미묘한 감정변화와 풋풋하고 달콤한 사랑이야기가 알콩달콩하게 펼쳐집니다.

일본에서는 "누군가 내게 키스했다"라는 제목으로 영화가 제작되기도 했습니다.






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Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0312561288
ISBN-13: 978-0312561284
책 크기: 20.8 cm x 13.8 cm



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Book Description
If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss.
She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps.
She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia.
She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place.
She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her “Chief.” She’d get all his inside jokes, and maybe he wouldn’t be so frustrated with her for forgetting things she can’t possibly remember.
She’d know about her mom’s new family.
She’d know about her dad’s fiancée.
She wouldn’t have to spend her junior year relearning all the French she supposedly knew already.
She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her.
She wouldn’t have wanted to kiss him back.
But Naomi picked heads.


From Booklist *Starred Review*
Contemporary realism, set askew, is the silver streak of Zevin, whose Elsewhere (2005) depicted a teen's experiences in the afterlife. This equally sensitive, joyful novel, her second for YAs, tackles the slippery nature of human identity, deceptively tucked within a plot familiar from TV soaps. After high-school junior Naomi conks her head, she can't remember anything that happened since sixth grade. She is by turns mystified and startled by evidence of her present life, from the birth-control pills in her bedside table to her parents' astonishing, rancorous split. Eventually, the memories return, leaving Naomi questioning the basis of a new, intense romance, and wondering which of her two lives, present or former, represents her most authentic self. The amnesia device could have been more convincingly played, but Zevin writes revealingly about emotions and relationships. Especially vivid is the Hepburn-Tracy bond Naomi shares with yearbook co-chief Will, whom she wounds with her lurching self-reinvention even as she discovers deeper feelings: "I had thought the way I felt about Will was just a room, but it had turned out to be a mansion." Pulled by the heart-bruising love story, readers will pause to contemplate irresistible questions: If the past were a blank slate, what would you become? Does the search for one's truest identity necessarily mean rejecting all that has gone before?


Booklist *Starred Review*
Sensitive, joyful . . . Pulled by the heart-bruising love story, readers will stop to contemplate irresistible questions.


The New York Times Book Review
Zevin is completely convincing on the intensity of early passion and the way it can evaporate in the rays of something new, and she has a light touch with the deceptively shallow anguish of adolescence.


The San Francisco Chronicle
Zevin is just a great writer. . . . [She] gets all the details right.


Voice of Youth Advocates
Zevin blends romance, changing friendships, and familial dysfunction with themes of chance, loss, and choice, and the result is a quiet exploration of identity and self-realization that is simultaneously thought provoking and entertaining.


The Horn Book
Honest and complex characterization grounds a thoughtful, suspenseful examination of memory and identity.


Publishers Weekly
Zevin cooks up an entertaining love story . . . teens will identify with her vulnerability and her heightened feelings of alienation. And fans of psychological dramas won't want to put this book down.