Lauren Oliver is The New York Times bestselling author of young adult novels including ‘Replica,’ ‘Vanishing Girls’ and the Delirium trilogy: ‘Delirium,’ ‘Pandemonium’ and ‘Requiem.’ Her middle-grade novel ‘Liesl & Po’ earned her a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nomination. The 2010 stand-alone young adult novel ‘Before I Fall,’ about a young girl who keeps reliving the last day of her life, has been made into a movie and will be released on Friday March 3, 2017.   It stars Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, Logan Miller, Kian Lawley, Jennifer Beals and Diego Boneta.

According to Amazon, ‘Before I Fall’ is the story of seventeen year old Samantha ‘Sam’ Kingston who is killed in a car accident in her hometown of Ridgeview. It is written in first person narrative as Sam is forced to relive the day of the accident every day for a week. Because she is trying to figure out why this is happening to her she does things differently everyday hoping for a different outcome. Some of her actions seem out of character for her and surprise her family and friends. When she died she was the type of girl who seemed to have it all including popularity, a boyfriend and unfortunately the kind of social life that made life unbearable for outsiders and social misfits. The novel is a combination of Mean Girls and Groundhog Day that has Sam trying to solve the mystery behind her death and discovering the true value of everything she is in danger of losing. At the end the Sam who inevitably accepts her fate is vastly different than the girl at the beginning of the book.