![]() ![]() He gets a punk singer to distract the hospital staff so that he can rush in and see Mia. This leads to him come up with a diversion. But we'll make the metaphor work by saying that being in the ICU is a gamble, and the stakes are literally life and death.īeing in the hospital provides the only conflict in the present-time portion of the book: Adam cannot see Mia because of hospital policy. Mia knows precisely how much time has passed. ![]() Which is a lie, because each chapter heading tells the exact time of day. You can't tell what time of day it is or how much time has passed" (8.2). A horrible car accident like this can happen anywhere, at any time. The book's main conflict comes from the fact that Mia is in a hospital. It's like the saddest episode of Portlandia ever. A girl's family is killed, she's in a coma, and dozens of vegan hipsters in vintage clothes hold vigil. Even if the book didn't explicitly say that Mia was airlifted to a hospital in Portland, which it does, with all the references to hipsters, vegans, and vintage clothing stores, you'd know it was Portland. ![]()
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