Without or Without You by Caroline Leavitt

Publisher: Algonquin

Genre: Fiction

Setting: NYC

With or Without You follows Stella, a nurse who falls into a coma after a night in from a winter storm with her long time musician partner, Simon. Throughout novel, we follow her (and Simon) as she is in her coma and then beyond when she must figure out what she does next when she can no longer be a nurse. 

This story, at least I hope, seems to be realistic (as I’ve never been in a coma, I can’t say it is). It’s about finding yourself when your life completely changes, for both Stella and for Simon.

With or Without You has it all: friendship, heartbreak, life changing obstacles, friendship, and self discovery. 

It left me asking myself, ” What would happen to me if I woke up from a coma?”.