{"id":4458,"date":"2014-10-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:13:53","slug":"me-on-the-floor-bleeding-by-jenny-jagerfeld-book-review-thumbtip-gone-mom-gone-maja-is-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=4458","title":{"rendered":"Me On the Floor, Bleeding, by Jenny Jagerfeld (book review) – thumbtip gone, mom gone, Maja is… where?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Maja really wouldn’t harm herself<\/a>.
\nMum really wouldn’t forget their weekend plans.
\nDad really wouldn’t assume the worst (yes, he would).<\/p>\n

A classic outsider at her high school, Maja is willing to wander a bit further in search of the truth than the adults in her life are comfortable with.<\/p>\n

Not the first book-in-translation that I’ve featured on BooksYALove, but its publisher is my first small press from Sweden. Hope to see more YA from Stockholm Text in the future!<\/p>\n

**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Me On the Floor, Bleeding \/ Jenny Jagerfeld; translated by Susan Beard. Stockholm Text, 2014. \u00a0 [author site<\/a> in Swedish]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: When Maja is injured at school, everyone worries that she did it on purpose… except her mom, who’s gone missing. The Swedish teen’s search turns up more answers than she was looking for.<\/p>\n

If she hadn’t been trying to make a bookshelf instead of sculpture for art class, the 17 year old wouldn’t have mangled the tip of her thumb in the electric saw after hours.<\/p>\n

If Mum had answered her text, Maja wouldn’t have taken the train to an empty house for her visiting weekend and found Mum’s mobile phone left behind.<\/p>\n

If Justin next door hadn’t helped Maja clean up after yet another accident, they wouldn’t have gone to the coffeehouse together, or the bar, or his room.<\/p>\n

And Maja keeps flashing back to the whirling saw blade and the blood and Mum’s increasingly odd communications. Where are the answers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maja really wouldn’t harm herself. Mum really wouldn’t forget their weekend plans. Dad really wouldn’t assume the worst (yes, he would). A classic outsider at her high school, Maja is willing to wander a bit further in search of the truth than the adults in her life are comfortable with. Not the first book-in-translation that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[90,22,4,11,5,16,87,18,40,43,39,27,49,96,31,15,9,21,35,225,3,6],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-divorce","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mental-health","tag-non-us-author","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-sweden","tag-teens","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4458"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4694,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4458\/revisions\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}