Everything Everything
Author: Nicola Yoon Acquired in: 2020 Nicola Yoon's debut novel is a bit relatable; the main character Madeline or Maddy has been living in her house, with no outside contact, just like how the entire world has been since the beginning of 2020. But Maddy's situation is a bit complex, rather than an impartial virus chasing people, she is trying to avoid the world to save her life. Maddy has only known the walls of her specially modified and sterilised house her whole life. She has been told that she suffers from SCID, a disorder which renders her immune system vulnerable to the millions of pathogens present in the air. Her whole life is akin to what we experience now: no friends of her age, attends classes online, sanitised from head to toe and reads books and plays board games to while away time. The next part is rather predictable; a boy moves in next door and becomes her ticket to the forbidden world. While the rest of the story flies by as if in a typical Young Adu...