I Was Here by Gayle Forman
Having read other books by this author, I felt this would probably be a good read, and I was right.thin
Cody's best friend, Meg, recently killed herself. She was meticulous in her preparations. She got a hotel room, left a note and a good tip for the maid, sent an email to her parent and best friend that would be delayed until after she was gone, emailed the police to tell them where to find her body, and then swallowed a very poisonous chemical. Cody is asked by Meg's parents to go to her college and pack up Meg's things, and Meg's meticulousness continues there.
While packing up Meg's room, Cody meets a guy that Meg had a one night stand with, and Cody seems to think he is connected to her suicide somehow. He's not, but it leads Cody to find out all she can about why her best friend, the person she thought she knew so well, took her own life.
Cody enlists the help of one of Meg's roommates to help her with the technical aspects of her search. She sets herself up as prey on the same site that Meg went to when she was thinking of "catching the bus." Cody needs to do this to find closure, to know that the rift that started to form shortly before Meg's death wasn't the cause of her suicide.
I enjoyed this book, not for the fact that it was about suicide, obviously, but because this seems like a real reaction from someone left behind after a loved one's suicide. It touched me.
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