How do you want to be remembered? What if all you were remembered for was your death? Young Hazel Grace lives with the side effect of cancer; dying. She spends most of her days at home sleeping or reading her favourite book An Imperial Affliction. One day she dares to venture out of her comfort zone and into the literal heart of Jesus when her mother forces her to attend a cancer support group. There she meets the infamous, metaphorical Augustus Waters, a cancer amputee with a huge ego. As time goes on, the two become close friends and we see a triumphant story of romance, adventure and heartbreak. It is a novel of life and death, and the people caught in between.We see love tested to it's fullest capabilities, undergoing the struggles of a teenage couple against the odds. Sometimes the grenade is not always the person you expect them to be.