Before I Die

Tessa Scott is sixteen and has lived with acute lymphoblastic leukemia for four years. When her cancer turns terminal and treatment ends, she writes a list of things she wants to do before she dies, working through sex, drugs, breaking the law, and saying yes to everything she was once too careful for, with her best friend Zoey as accomplice. Then Adam, the boy who moves in next door, becomes the one item she never expected: real love, arriving exactly when she has the least time for it. Downham tracks Tessa's final months in unflinching first person, from the small joys to the brutal physical decline.