Every Day by David Levithan

Every Day

by David Levithan

From the genius of David Levithan, co-author of Will Grayson, Will Grayson, and Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, comes a love story like no other you've read before.

Each morning, A wakes up in a different body. There’s never any warning about who it will be, but A is used to that. Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.

And that’s fine – until 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 – every day …

A stunningly original novel that will make you view the world from a different perspective. You can also read Rhiannon's side of the story in Another Day.

Levithan’s powerful novel explores the complexities of first love in a unique way that will captivate anybody who loved Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park and Jandy Nelson’s I’ll Give You the Sun.

David is the New York Times best-selling author of Boy Meets Boy and Marly’s Ghost. While among his many collaborations are Will Grayson, Will Grayson with Fault in Our Stars author John Green. David's latest collaboration with Rachel Cohn, The Twelve Days of Dash and Lily, was picked by Zoella for her Book Club with WHSmiths. David is also a highly respected children’s book editor, whose list includes many luminaries of children’s literature, including Garth Nix, Libba Bray and Suzanne Collins. He lives and works in New York.

Reviewed by teachergorman on

4 of 5 stars

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For those of you who like to feel close to a character, this novel provides probably the most intimate portrait of a pair of young lovers that I've ever come across without ever being exploitative or grotesque. The mind-bending strangeness of the premise could have turned into a disastrous mess in lesser hands, but Levithan pulls it off in the end (though I had some moments where I thought the plot would veer into some disappointing territory). Ultimately, I couldn't tell how much research Levithan had done into the kinds of struggles his characters face on a day to day basis, but I found them all believable and many of them so illuminating that I will see certain people differently for the rest of my life. That alone is a major accomplishment and makes this book worth anyone's time. But the fact that he pulled these different lives together into a coherent narrative about two characters we come to love deeply is a major feat.

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