It could be the exotic spice in the food I just ate.

It could be the chemicals in the cleaner used to wipe the table that I just touched. “Basically, I’m allergic to the world,””she notes:Īnything can trigger a bout of sickness. She explains its nature and its consequences from the very start of the novel, telling us that her disease is “as rare as it is famous” and that it’s a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID): Well, the main character of Nicola Yoon’s debut novel “Everything, Everything” is a bubble girl, Madeline “Maddy” Whittier, who suffers from the very same disease. If so, you certainly remember the episode with the Bubble Boy, right? You know, the one with the boy who has to live in a bubble because unless he lives in a germ-free sterile environment, he may die instantaneously! In 2016, Yoon’s second book, “The Sun Is Also a Star,” was published, the film rights of which have been already acquired by MGM and Warner Brothers. The book proved a huge success, and it was adapted into a movie released in May 2017.

She wrote her debut novel, “Everything, Everything,” long after while working full-time as a programmer for an investment management firm and raising her first daughter. She majored in electrical engineering at Cornell University, but a creative writing class inspired her to subsequently attend the Master of Creative Writing program at Emerson College. Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American author.

If so, this one should be the next one on your I-want-a-break-from-all-this-madness list. However, the book’s innovativeness, its lyrical descriptions, and heartwarming narrative may jerk more than one tear out of the eyes of many adults who don’t like YA novels so much, but who do want to leaf through a sentimental work or two from time to time. “Everything, Everything” is a young adult novel, so, obviously, it should interest John-Green / Nicholas-Sparks -worshipping teenagers much more than adults, many of whom may find this book a bit melodramatic. Who Should Read “Everything, Everything”? And Why? “ Everything, Everything” tries to answer both questions. What if you were allergic to everything and, thus forced to live in a bubble?Īnd what if, in spite of that, you fall in love?

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