![]() She latches on to her last sighting of Rebecca, and tries to find the person that Rebecca was with at the time, thinking that he might have some insight for her. Leila goes on with her life - school, a part-time job, finally getting to know Clare - but struggles to understand Rebecca's suicide. Leila moves in with her sister Clare, and has Raphael, a distant cousin (and former boyfriend of Clare's), as a secondary guardian. ![]() Her parents take a one-year job helping to create a new teaching hospital in Poland. The family has a balance, if an unusual one, right up until Rebecca commits suicide.Īfter Rebecca's clearly premediatated suicide, everything changes for Leila. Leila admires her vibrant and quirky sister Rebecca, and turns to her for advice, while respecting her more formal sister Clare's preference to remain distant. Leila has two much older half-sisters, from her father's doomed first marriage. Leila begins her story indirectly, recounting her occasional meetings with her sisters' mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() It tells of a year in the life of sixteen-year-old Leila Abranel, a New York City high school student with a rather unconventional family. Stay With Me (Houghton Mifflin: April 24, 2006), by Garret Freymann-Weyr, is a highly complex and rewarding young adult novel. ![]()
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