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Here I lie and bleed is a youth novel by Jenny Jägerfeld published in 2010 by the book publisher Gilla Böcker.

Plot
17-year-old Maja accidentally saws off the outermost part of her left thumb. Maja's father immediately starts to worry that Maja would have done it on purpose. Maja goes to Norrköping to visit her mother, but is met there by an empty house. By accident, she ends up at a party in the neighboring house, where she falls in love with the 20-year-old Justin.

Awards
The book was awarded the 2010 August Prize for Swedish Children's and Young People's Book of the Year : The jury's reasoning was: "'With accurate gallows humor, Maja's coquettish and at the same time undisguised alienation is embodied. An accidentally amputated thumb throws the reader on a wandering journey in the search for identity. A psychological portrait with particular credibility in the expression.'"