Every Day

by David Levithan’A’ is a soul who wakes up in a different body every single day. This has been happening since the day he/she was born. Every day ‘A’, who is of indeterminate gender, race and physical appearance, gets to be the person whose body he/she is inhibiting, and has access to their memories and to their lives. The day ‘A’ wakes up in the body of Justin seems like it will be an average day in the life of a moody teenage jock, until ‘A’ meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon.  The next day, ‘A’ is in a different body again, but is unable to forget Rhiannon. From that moment on, ‘A’ goes against his/her code of conduct and has only one goal each day – to reconnect with Rhiannon, in whatever body he/she may be inhabiting that day. I loved this book and the questions it brought up – like, how interconnected are attraction and physicality? What is it that makes you love a person? What, if anything, separates what ‘A’ does from what some religions would consider demonic possession? And if you could truly walk in another person’s shoes for a day, how do you think it would change you? Another Day is the companion novel, which tells the story from Rhiannon’s perspective.