Movie premise and the inevitability of every plot turn (no one will doubt which characters will become romantically involved and who will end up together). Well-defined characters and convincing narration camouflage the Lifetime. The image of the boy-who helped her to the hospital and stayed to make sure she was all right-lingers as she tries to sort out her past and her feelings. What Naomi does remember is James, the first person she saw after her accident. Her best friend, Will, with whom she co-edits the school yearbook, and Ace, her tennis-player boyfriend, seem like strangers. She doesn't remember her parents' divorce (not to mention her mother's remarriage, her half-sister and her father's recent engagement to a tango dancer). Zevin cooks up an entertaining love story out of what her narrator calls “chance, gravity and a dash of head trauma.” As the novel opens, 16-year-old Naomi has fallen down a flight of stairs and lost all memory of the past four years. Departing from the science fiction premise of Elsewhere,
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