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The Epic Story of Every Living Thing | Deb Caletti

2 posts | 3 read | 1 to read

From the award-winning author of A Heart in a Body in The World comes a gorgeous and fiercely feminist young adult novel. When a teen travels to Hawaii to track down her sperm donor father, she discovers the truth about him, about the sunken shipwreck that’s become his obsession, and most of all about herself. Harper Proulx has lived her whole life with unanswered questions about her anonymous sperm donor father. She's convinced that without knowing him, she can't know herself. When a chance Instagram post connects Harper to a half sibling, that connection yields many more and ultimately leads Harper to uncover her father's identity. So, fresh from a painful breakup and still reeling with anxiety that reached a lifetime high during the pandemic, Harper joins her newfound half siblings on a voyage to Hawaii to face their father. The events of that summer, and the man they discover—a charismatic deep-sea diver obsessed with solving the mystery of a fragile sunken shipwreck—will force Harper to face some even bigger questions: Who is she? Is she her DNA, her experiences, her successes, her failures? Is she the things she loves—or the things she hates? Who she is in dark times? Who she might become after them?

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kissmehardy

The Epic Story of Every Living Thing | Deb Caletti

pick

Absolutely loved this one. Harper's journey from an anxiety-riddled perfectionist to a more present, deliberate girl is so realistic and relatable, and the familial discoveries were wonderful. I wish there had been more of a reckoning with Harper's mom, but I don't think less of the story for not including it. #yalit

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MaggieCarr

The Epic Story of Every Living Thing | Deb Caletti

so-so

If I've learned anything from being a Deb Caletti reader it is this- often her plot and sub plots are fighting for the spotlight, all powerful to the point distraction? I easily could have read this story as two completely separate storylines. 1. Of a set of sperm donor siblings discovering each other and tracking down their father while also learning about themselves. 2. A teen pov time slip with the ship logs alternating chapters...

MaggieCarr ... while fighting to protect its historical significance and growing to love real life away from the infinite scroll. Mix the two together and add in thoughts, feelings, fears, and pandemic panic and it all becomes a soup. 2y

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