The Horn Book Guide

OLDER FICTION

Rivers, Karen

You Are the Everything

264 pp. | Algonquin | October, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-61620-815-8 $17.95

(2) YA Rivers's unsettling second-person-perspective novel immerses readers in the experience of sixteen-year-old protagonist Elyse, flying home from a school trip in Paris when the plane terrifyingly crashes into a mountain. The rest of the story has an increasingly disorienting, dreamlike feel as Elyse and the only other survivor, her longtime crush Josh, recover in Wyoming. As Elyse less-than-lucidly wrestling with grief and her sanity, readers will ruminate on loss, fate, and death.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2019