In his New York Times book review, Frank Bruni specifically praises Levithan’s handling of a storyline involving depression, writing that it “demonstrates Levithan’s talent for empathy, which is paired in the best parts of the book with a persuasive optimism about the odds for happiness and for true love.” The novel was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Young Adult/Children’s Literature, as well as the winner of the Booklist Editor’s Choice: Books for Youth Award.Įvery Day also enjoyed commercial success, becoming a New York Times bestseller. On his website, Levithan writes that there were two questions he wanted to answer with Every Day: “First, what would it be like to be a person who grew up without gender, race, sexual orientation, parents, friends, and all of the other things we usually classify ourselves by, and, second, what would it be like to be in love with someone who changed every day – would it be possible?” Every Day’s inventive exploration of these questions earned Levithan widespread acclaim. As A and Rhiannon grow closer, A begins to question the limits of life as a disembodied spirit, attempting to have a stable and lasting relationship with another person for the first time. At the start of the novel, while inhabiting the body of a high school student named Justin, A makes an unexpectedly profound connection with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon. Comfortable living as both male and female, A is non-binary and does not exclusively identify with a particular gender. A has no control over the gender, race, location, or appearance of the bodies they occupy, and they never occupy the same body twice. The novel tells the story of A, a disembodied spirit who wakes up in the body of a different person each day. Every Day, published in 2012, is a Young Adult novel by David Levithan.

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