![]() ![]() Purpose has been very important to me in my career, and is a word that should be used more often to guide our decisions about our future, our careers, our partner- and family- choices. I wrote, in other words, to explore a question I hadn’t yet answered for myself, as many writers do.īut even so, I never expected that in the process I would actually land on an answer, and that Sam’s journey would help map out my own - toward not happiness but a sense of meaning and purpose, a sense of worth and joy, that is harder to find than happiness but also far, far more resilient. I wrote the book when I was 26, after a lot of turbulence, immense self-doubt, and periods of deep depression. “In ‘Before I Fall’, the main character, Sam, has one final opportunity to determine what gives a life meaning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s what Lauren had to say to Smart Girls about the messages she feels reside in the book and film: In 2010 Before I Fall was recognized as a Best Book of the Year by, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly. A story of a girl who is forced to relive the last day of her life for a whole week in order to understand what happened to her as well as realize that even the smallest actions can make the biggest differences. Before I Fall has just opened in theaters, adapted from Lauren Oliver’s bestselling debut YA novel. ![]()
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