Maya survived that day, by hiding in a closet when the shooting started. This is the story of Maya who is left behind and Zach whose life changed forever when his mother decided to be lawyer of the shooter. They could be named as “LUCKY ONES” because they didn’t die that day, right? But what if they choose to die slowly instead of instantly like the other victims, lost the most import parts of them at very same day: THEIR HOPE and THEIR LOVE OF LIVING AND CARRYING ON. This is not only about the school shooting, massacre and terror the perpetrator created, innocent victims who unexpectedly lost their lives, this book is about the people WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND. And how both might figure out that surviving could be an option after all.Īn effectively intense, emotional, heart wrenching, mind bending, sad, poignant, depressing debut novel shakes you to the core and making you non-stop sob, walking around with your teary red eyes and running nose. The same night May goes with her best friend to audition for a new band. Which is how Zach ends up at band practice that night.

His best friend is needy and demanding, but he won't let Zach disappear into himself.

His girlfriend dumped him, his friends bailed, and now he spends his time hanging out with his little sister.and the one faithful friend who stuck around. Zach lost his old life when his mother decided to defend the shooter. No one can possibly understand how it feels to be her. No one gets what she went through-no one saw and heard what she did. Eleven months after the school shooting that killed her twin brother, May still doesn't know why she was the only one to walk out of the band room that day. How do you put yourself back together when it seems like you've lost it all?

The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson