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The Epic Story of Every Living Thing

By Deb Caletti
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In The Epic Story of Every Living Thing by Deb Caletti, readers follow Harper Proulx, a teenager navigating identity and family dynamics. When Harper learns about her biological father's existence and enigmatic past, a transformative journey ensues, filled with self-discovery, relationships, and the complexity of modern family life. This young adult novel artfully explores the themes of belonging and the intricacy of human connections.
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This book may appeal to you if you're drawn to emotional journeys of self-discovery and complex family dynamics. It's a compelling young adult novel that explores themes of identity, relationships, and the search for understanding in an ever-connected world. Fans of heartfelt contemporary stories with relatable characters and a touch of mystery will likely find it captivating.

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The Epic Story of Every Living Thing

When Harper Proulx and her newfound sibiling travel to Hawaii to track down their sperm donor father, Harper finds a deep-sea diver obsessed with solving the mystery of a shipwreck and the experience forces her to face even bigger questions.

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From the award-winning author of A Heart in a Body in The World comes a gorgeous and fiercely feminist young adult novel. When a teen travels to Hawaii to track down her sperm donor father, she discovers the truth about him, about the sunken shipwreck that's become his obsession, and most of all about herself.

Harper Proulx has lived her whole life with unanswered questions about her anonymous sperm donor father. She's convinced that without knowing him, she can't know herself. When a chance Instagram post connects Harper to a half sibling, that connection yields many more and ultimately leads Harper to uncover her father's identity.

So, fresh from a painful breakup and still reeling with anxiety that reached a lifetime high during the pandemic, Harper joins her newfound half siblings on a voyage to Hawaii to face their father. The events of that summer, and the man they discover—a charismatic deep-sea diver obsessed with solving the mystery of a fragile sunken shipwreck—will force Harper to face some even bigger questions: Who is she? Is she her DNA, her experiences, her successes, her failures? Is she the things she loves—or the things she hates? Who is she in dark times? Who might she become after them?

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The Epic Story of Every Living Thing by Deb Caletti is highly praised for its eloquent exploration of themes such as identity, family, and connection. It is commended for its empathetic engagement with anxiety and overcoming fear, as well as its sophisticated storytelling. The novel is described as both introspective and richly engaging, with a focus on experiencing life fully and finding joy beneath the surface.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780593485521

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Ember

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 357g

Pages: 432

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Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Deb Caletti Fiction Penguin Books Young Adult

About the Author

Deb Caletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of over twenty books for adults and young adults, including Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award; A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Girl, Unframed; and One Great Lie. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. She lives with her family in Seattle.

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