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“Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.”
Every Day by David Levithan is one of those books that you pick up and don’t want to put down because it makes you feel so good. You clutch it, turning page after page, as the most unusual but ever-intriguing teenage love story unfolds before you. As you read it, you fall in love with the main character, whose existence can’t really be put into words. Levithan creates the perfect compelling love story that breaks the boundaries of what it means to love someone.
Every Day is the story of A. A wakes up in the body of a different person every morning and lives their life for that day. As A “body jumps,” A is completely emotionally and intellectually conscious, yet has no control over where they end up each morning. Age, sex, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality…A experiences them all.
“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.”
A lives life through everyone else and without meaning until A meets Rhiannon as A is in the body of Rhiannon’s boyfriend. From then on, A uses everything in their being to try to make it back to Rhiannon every day. Nothing else matters anymore. A and Rhiannon must fight against everything they have been taught about destiny and love.
What I found to be the best thing about this book is that A gives the audience an interesting perspective of what love really is. A isn’t a physical person but more like a consciousness. A doesn’t have a gender, a sex, or a body…yet A was able to feel love. The kicker was that I found myself automatically referring to A using the pronouns he/his/him as an automatic reflex from the heteronormative society we all live in because A is in love with a girl. A is so much more than that, but I reflexively put her/him/it into a box. I forced myself to not think of A as a person, but more of just a being, and I found a whole new love story. A’s love means more than than anything you’ll find in pop culture today. It’s a connection between two beings, not just two bodies. A’s love is pure and goes beyond physical boundaries.
Levithan changes your expectations of what I means to be in love. A is able to feel such deep and passionate love and make it survive every day…when every day is different and ever changing. But can Rhiannon do the same?
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