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You Are the Everything by Karen Rivers

The voice. The first thing I notice about a Karen Rivers novel is the voice. Always distinctive. Invariably haunting and unforgettable.
Written in second person, You Are the Everything invites readers into the mind of Elyse Schmidt.

Call me Elyse. If you call me Elyse, everything will be okay.

​Elyse and her best friend Kath are on their way home from a band trip to Paris.

It's your first plane trip home, first time out of the country, first time for a lot of things, but nothing happened...Paris should've been the backdrop for so many amazing things, but it wasn't.

​A smallish sixteen-year-old flutist with a penchant for drawing, Schmidt finds that her seatmate on the return flight is Josh Harris, the object of her unrequited love. As he sleeps, she imagines a romantic relationship with the boy of her dreams.

Elyse is jolted from her reverie when the plane suddenly tilts dramatically, and the yellow oxygen masks descend from above. She realizes: This plane is probably going to crash!

She wonders: Will she get the pony that she's always wanted?  Will she make it to Wyoming? Will she ever be kissed? 

This is a story of longing, of trying to put the pieces together, of the blurred lines between reality and desire. It's an exploration of memory and time and the way each alters our perceptions. It's brilliant and it's sardonically funny. It is all that. It is every thing.

The Everything of Everything

Come inside the consciousness of three teen as their lives take bizarre and often shocking turns. What’s real? What’s imagined? Will the final reveal surprise you? 

Uncorrected copy provided by publisher.

​Pub date: October 30, 2018, 2018 Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers  ISBN:  978-1616208158