This teen novel of love and loss and reunion is well worth the read. 
Where She Went
Gayle Forman
Dutton
ISBN: 978 0 525 42294 5
Audience: teens
Adam Wilde’s band made it big on the album he wrote – he should be on top of the world. But he wrote it out of the pain of losing his girlfriend after she survived the accident that took the rest of her family, and without Mia, all the success, all the money, everything he wanted means nothing. Soon, he finds himself withdrawing further from the band, the music, the fame, and even from himself.
At the end of his rope, he is pressed further by some very invasive questions in an interview and explodes, insisting on staying behind in New York another day whiel the band goes ahead to start the tour. He is trying his hardest to convince himself that he can make it through the tour, when he walks by Carnegie Hall, and sees that Mia is playing her cello there that night. And goes in.
Mia knows he’s there, and once she summons him to her dressing room, they are off on a night and day together in New York that both open old wounds and heals them, that brings them to understanding, and ultimately, that brings them together in a whole new way. It’s a rollercoaster of a night, by turns painful and hopeful, but the distance they cover both in ranging around the city and in their inner selves makes for a great story to follow. And because Adam narrates it, it amnages to be a love story that is not in the least girly, which is quite something in the Young Adult world!
Also available as an ebook.