I Choose

Following a set of high school students on the verge of adulthood, I Choose shows them wrestling with decisions about right and wrong while they try to work out what comes next. Their struggles include depression, romance, and the pull for attention. The novel also looks at life in a single-parent home and the everyday choices that shape each character.

Each young character narrates their own chapters, so readers hear their doubts and convictions directly. The book gives each one a full portrait and their own dilemma, and it traces how their lives overlap and affect one another.

The author sets these stories in 2020 and frames the characters' outcomes around pressures that many readers will recognize from their own lives and from people they know.