We are Inevitable

We Are Inevitable is a novel by Gayle Forman, the bestselling author of If I Stay, which was adapted into a film starring Chloë Grace Moretz. It is pitched at readers of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, John Green and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, and is a story about finding yourself and finding your people.

Aaron Stein has not had much luck with the things that seem destined to happen. His friends have left for college and moved on, while he remains in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, running a struggling bookshop with his father, Ira. He needs a lucky break, the good kind of inevitable.

Then he meets Hannah, who strikes him as magical, musical, brave and clever. Aaron begins to wonder whether she might be the answer, and whether meeting her and getting close to her could be the inevitable thing he has been waiting for. He describes the feeling on meeting her as a message from his future self, suggesting that the two of them had in some sense already happened.