If I Stay is a Young Adult novel by Gayle Forman, the first in the If I Stay duology. This book covers just over twenty-four hours of Mia Hall, a seventeen-year-old cellist’s afterlife. Mia is stuck in a limbo state after her world is thrown off kilter due to a tragic car accident. The world exists as it always has, but she is stuck watching as her body is treated at the hospital and her family and friends gather in the hope that she will wake from her comatose state. But her life will never be the same as it was; everything has been taken from her, and all she is left with is a possible choice. Whether it is hers or not to make, she still has to decide if she should stay or go.