SuitabookEvery Day
David Levithan
- Reading
- Read it alongside calm conversations about identity, relationships and consequences. Pause after difficult episodes involving substances, suicidal intent, a fatal crash or violence, and let your child decide what they want to explore.
- Themes
- Identity beyond the body: A wakes each morning in a different teenager’s body while retaining a continuing emotional and intellectual self. The premise creates space to consider whether identity depends on appearance, body or continuity of consciousness.
- Love and responsibility: A falls in love with Rhiannon while inhabiting Justin’s body, and tries to balance feelings for her with responsibility towards host people. The situation appears designed to examine the emotional and ethical pressures created when love crosses changing circumstances and existing relationships.
- Different lives and family settings: A inhabits a range of teenagers and encounters varied lifestyles, sexual orientations, gender identifications and parenting approaches. The book presents differences in family and personal circumstances as part of the central experience of moving between lives.
- Worth knowing
- Pay particular attention to relationships and intimacy.