Everyone We've Been
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5.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
"Everyone We've Been is a dazzling love story with mystery and dizzying twists. Sarah Everett's puzzle of a debut will easily hook readers as they piece together this consuming tale of hope and heartbreak."
-Adam Silvera, New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not
"Addictive, charming, and full of surprises, EVERYONE WE'VE BEEN is a gorgeously written novel about our mistakes and how we recover from them."
--Adi Alsaid, author of LET'S GET LOST and NEVER ALWAYS SOMETIMES
For fans of Jandy Nelson and Jenny Han comes a new novel that will be hard to forget.
Addison Sullivan has been in an accident. In its aftermath, she has memory lapses and starts talking to a boy who keeps disappearing. She's afraid she's going crazy, and the worried looks on her family's and friends' faces aren't helping.
Addie takes drastic measures to fill in the blanks and visits the Overton Clinic. But there she unwittingly discovers it is not her first visit. And when she presses, she finds out that she had certain memories erased.
Flooded with questions about the past, Addison confronts the choices she can't even remember and wonders if you can possibly know the person you're becoming if you don't know the person you've been.
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On the way home from a concert, high school senior Addie Sullivan meets a guy she connects with. Then their bus crashes, and there's no sign of him; when he turns up again, only Addie can see him. By this point, readers who have access to chapters labeled "before" know that the mystery "Bus Boy" closely resembles Zach, the guy Addie dated 18 months earlier. What they don't know is why she doesn't recognize this similarity herself. It's only when Addie seeks help that she realizes her memories of Zach were erased; even more disturbing, there are other important things she doesn't remember. This could be the setup for a thriller, but the secrets here are familial, not criminal debut author Everett is interested in the role memory plays in shaping who we are. Though the idea that the one place with memory-erasing technology is just outside Addie's small hometown stretches believability, and Everett's examinations of memory, history, and resilience can be heavy-handed, she has crafted a complex and thought-provoking story. Ages 12 up.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant
An amazing debut novel. I laughed, I fell in loud, I cried. At its heart this is a first love and loss story and it is so real and so beautiful.