Everyday by David Levithan came to me purely by chance and I am glad to have had the privilege of reading it. It contains an enticing plot that truly encouraged me to ponder the mysteries of the body and soul. It was something I had never dwelled upon before but reading about how the main character, A, inhabited a new body everyday while only keeping his consciousness really struck me. Everyday A was forced to adapt to a new life entirely different from the one of the previous day. That meant he could never truly belong to a family, never keep up with friends he made, never maintain a relationship with the person he loved. It taught me that we are all vastly unique and although we may sometimes despise the life we have been given, we would likely never trade our memories, mistakes, and especially the people we love, for any other life. Much to A’s disfortune, he falls irrevocably in love with one girl, so much that he tells her his secret and everyday, in a completely new body, attempts to seek her out no matter the cost. The girl too feels this connection between them but is held back by his problem. In the end, A stops his contact with her because he feels she deserves more than what he can offer. Ultimately, it was pretty thought-provoking in the sense that I wondered constantly throughout the novel, do we fall in love more with the body or the mind? It wasn’t as black and white as I had once believed. Overall, I recommend this book for anyone interested in reading about extraordinary lives with a touch of romance and a whole lot of underlying existential thinking.
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