The Sky Is Everywhere
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4.6 • 246 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
From the Printz Award-winning author of I’ll Give You the Sun comes a story of a young girl’s struggle to sort her own melody out of the noise around her.
“Both a profound meditation on loss and grieving and an exhilarating and very sexy romance.”—NPR
“How grief and love run side by side is sensitively and intensely explored in this energetic, poetic, and warm-blooded novel.”—The Guardian
One boy helps her remember. The other helps her forget.
Adrift after her sister Bailey’s sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby—Bailey’s boyfriend who shares her grief—and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs . . . though she knows if the two of them collide her whole world will explode.
Join Lennie on this heartbreaking and hilarious journey of profound sorrow and mad love, as she makes colossal mistakes and colossal discoveries, as she traipses through band rooms and forest bedrooms and ultimately right into your heart.
Jandy Nelson's beloved, critically adored debut is now an Apple TV+ and A24 original film starring Jason Segel, Cherry Jones, Grace Kaufman, and Jacques Colimon.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
No one knows how they’ll react to grief—it’s different for every person. Book lover Lennie is completely devastated when her feisty sister, Bailey, dies. Unexpectedly, she finds herself in a love triangle with Bailey’s boyfriend, Toby, and Joe, the new cute kid at school. We really love YA author Jandy Nelson’s deep, honest, and flawed characters; at times, we weren’t sure if we wanted to give Lennie a big hug or sit her down for a good talking-to. The Sky Is Everywhere is a lyrical, often poetic look at how loss can upend our lives, but it’s also a story about love and healing. Prepare to feel uplifted, heartbroken, and a little bit breathless.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When Lennie's older sister dies suddenly, she is devastated, but she also starts realizing she no longer has to be the companion pony to the thoroughbred that was her dazzling sister. Living her own life proves difficult, however, both because it doesn't seem right that anything good should come out of Bailey's death and because of complications that arise when she falls in love with a talented musician in the school band. This honest, complex debut is distinguished by a dreamy California setting and poetic images that will draw readers into Lennie's world, particularly in the notes Lennie writes about life with her sister on bits of paper and even trees ( I button one of her frilly shirts/ over my own T-shirt./ ....I always feel better then,/ like she's holding me ). The author perhaps creates a few too many vibrant characters and plot points (Lennie also searches for her missing mom and discovers secrets Bailey was hiding). Even so, readers will be moved by Lennie's ability to admit to even some of her most unpleasant feelings and motivations, and her growing willingness to live full blast. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
I love this book!!!
This book is one of my favorites! I reread it all the time!!!
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This is BY FAR the best book I've EVER read.!! I checked it out of the school library and I have to turn it in tomorrow. But I don't want to. ): I love it so much.! #InLove Xx
Beautiful!,
What a beautiful story!!