Everything, Everything Kindle Edition

Everything, Everything Kindle Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Nicola Yoon Page ID: B00QP3M0UO

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File Size: 23188 KBPrint Length: 320 pagesPublisher: Delacorte Press (September 1, 2015)Publication Date: September 1, 2015Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0553496646ISBN-13: 978-0553496642ID: B00QP3M0UOText-to-Speech: Enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #12,263 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #6 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children’s eBooks > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Family Life > New Experiences #11 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children’s eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Imagination & Play #16 in Books > Children’s Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Health > Diseases
Nicola Yoon’s “Everything, Everything” is a wonderful novel that will make you laugh, but one that, as the story develops, may also make you cry. It is about loss, love, holding on, and letting go; it is about growing up and it is about acknowledging that our children do grow up.

Maddie Whittier has grown up believing she is allergic to everything. Living in a sterile home protected by an airlock that prevents outside contaminants from entering, Maddie’s world is limited to books, the internet, and two women. Her widowed physician mother and her nurse, Carla are the only individuals with whom she has physical contact. Maddie watches the outside world through her bedroom window. Fascinated by Olly, the teen-aged son of new neighbors, Maddie eventually strikes up an online friendship with him that evolves into something more. As Maddie struggles to gain her independence and to experience real life, conflict with her mother creates the basis for and resolution of the mystery surrounding Maddie’s illness.

“Everything, Everything” provides a lesson for parents who seek to control the lives of their children and its effect on a child’s dreams. “…I try not to want things I can’t have …” In denying them the opportunity to experience the triumphs and tragedies inherent in growing up, parents limit the child’s life to a sterile, safe existence. Maddie expresses the frustration this creates in a child. “…For the first time …I want more than I have …” She also recognizes the effect this has on her. “…Wanting leads to more wanting. There’s no end …” She realizes that, based on past events, her mother’s love is founded on the desperate desire to protect her. Because of this, Maddie – like many teens – is determined to live her own life differently.
I suspect my main problems with "Everything, Everything" aren’t especially fair to the book. A lot of fiction-reading has to do with accepting the premise of a book, or accepting the world in which a book takes place, or accepting the dramatic developments a book might have (as unrealistic as they may be). Fiction frequently deals with questions of extremes, and readers need to be capable of dealing with them. I struggled with Nicola Yoon’s debut for a few reasons on this front (an aspect of the premise which ultimately made a later portion of the novel problematic for me), but I can hardly deny that it’s an innovative entry in the YA field, and not an especially bad one overall.

I’ll start with what I liked: I really enjoyed the creativity Yoon applied to her writing. Rather than straight text (or even straight text plus fairly believable chat-speak), Yoon incorporates a lot of imagery and art into the story. Snippets from Maddy’s life fill these pages, in such a way that they truly don’t feel like fillers. It’s a tiny touch, really, and not something inherently original, but it works within the context of a story about a girl leading an extraordinarily and uniquely sheltered life.

The characterizations are a bit iffier. I found Maddy curious – aspects of her are remarkably familiar (a YA contemporary heroine who lives through literature???), but there’s also a selfishness and naivety which makes her feel a bit more believable. Maddy’s relationship with her mother was fascinating, and though aspects of the relationship ultimately angered me, I liked that Yoon did not simply ignore its existence. Olly meanwhile felt like a cardboard cutout of a YA hero-opposite-sheltered-girl. I wasn’t entirely sure what I was supposed to like in him, and just… didn’t.

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