Everything Happens Today (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609450519)

"A stupendous, thought-provoking, devilishly delicious novel that reads like Zen koan meets Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man . . . Highly recommended" (Library Journal, starred review).

Everything Happens Today records a single day in the life of Wes, a seventeen-year-old who attends Manhattan's elite Dalton School and lives in Greenwich Village in a dilapidated town house with his terminally ill mother, distant father, and beloved younger sister. In the course of one day everything will happen to Wes: he will lose his virginity to the wrong girl and break his own heart, try to meet a Monday morning deadline for a paper on War and Peace, and prepare an elaborate supper he hopes will reunite his family. Wes struggles through the day deep in thoughts of sex, love, Beatles lyrics, friendship, God, and French cuisine--a typical teenager with an atypical mind, a memorable young man who comes to the poignant understanding of how fragile but attainable personal happiness can be.

"A deeply compassionate novel by a very fine writer." --Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland

Author: Jesse Browner
ISBN-10: 1609450515
ISBN-13: 9781609450519
Publisher: Europa Editions
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2011
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2011 pg. 81
Publishers Weekly 08/29/2011
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2011
Shelf Awareness 10/04/2011