Everything Happens Today (Paperback) by Jesse Browner

from CarolynSchroeder

This is a wonderful novel about one day in the life of Wes, a seventeen-year-old boy in an elite school in Manhattan. But while this is usually the recipe for eye rolling in my opinion (sorta had it with the disenchanted, cruel, rich white kid set), this was a great book! I loved Wes. He is a tee...

from yourotherleft

Wes is seventeen, but he feels much, much older the night that he takes the long walk home from an Upper East Side apartment to his house in Greenwich Village. For an average seventeen year old guy, the night he loses his virginity would be a momentous occasion. Wes, however, is anything but aver...

from Seven.Stories.Press

As far as young-adult novels go, I think this ranks right up there with Perks of Being a Wallflower and Speak. There isn't anything traumatic about the book as there is in those other two, but that doesn't mean the novel doesn't equally capture teenage angst and the sort of intellectual machinati...

from Seven.Stories.Press

As far as young-adult novels go, I think this ranks right up there with Perks of Being a Wallflower and Speak. There isn't anything traumatic about the book as there is in those other two, but that doesn't mean the novel doesn't equally capture teenage angst and the sort of intellectual machinati...