Every Day
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4.4 • 54 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE CENTURY
Celebrate all the ways love makes us who we are with the romance that Entertainment Weekly calls "wise, wildly unique"--from the bestselling co-author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist--about a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life. Now a major motion picture!
Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.
There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.
With his new novel, David Levithan, bestselling co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, has pushed himself to new creative heights. He has written a captivating story that will fascinate readers as they begin to comprehend the complexities of life and love in A’s world, as A and Rhiannon seek to discover if you can truly love someone who is destined to change every day.
“A story that is always alluring, oftentimes humorous and much like love itself— splendorous.” —Los Angeles Times
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Imagine waking up as someone different every day. We inhaled David Levithan’s sucker punch of a novel that riffs off this premise. Every morning, A awakes as someone new: from a nerdy student battling her older brother to a devoted son helping his single-parent family stay afloat. One morning A gets up in the body of no-hoper Justin, meets his girlfriend Rhiannon, and falls head over heels. With its small, perfectly drawn stories of the lives A inhabits, Every Day is a beautiful love story and a thought-provoking exploration of identity.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Is it possible to disregard someone's exterior to see and love that person's true, interior self? That's just one of the provocative questions Levithan (Every You, Every Me) asks in a novel that follows "A," who takes over the body of a different person each day at midnight. Right around A's 6,000th day on the planet, A meets Rhiannon girlfriend of current host body Justin and falls in love. A is careful not to disrupt the lives of the bodies he/she inhabits (A doesn't identify as male or female), but that starts to change as A pursues Rhiannon. Levithan sets up the rules of this thought experiment carefully: A only hops between the bodies of teenagers (who all live fairly near each other), and A can access their memories. As a result, the story unfolds smoothly (the regular shifts between bodies give the novel a natural momentum), but it's also less ambitious. Despite the diverse teens A inhabits, A's cerebral, wiser-than-thou voice dominates, in much the same way A directs the lives of these teens for 24 hours. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic idea!
But the ending made me want to throw the book out the window. How dare you David.
An amazing book BUT....
I still have to mention theirs a bit of The Giving Tree bashing in it which I think was a little small of him to do. Like the book or not, he shouldn't hate on another author, especially himself being an author, he should know how it hurts. I personally think that was a mistake on his part. But other than that, it's a well written piece of literature. Well done.
Oh my God
Oh my God, okay, this book seriously almost made me cry 3 times, and I feel like I'm lost now, and just, like, oh my God. The ending was just... Oh my God. And this is probably really annoying, so I am going to stop, but please just read the damn book. Please.
Like, now.