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Everything Beautiful In The World (2008)

by Lisa Levchuk(Favorite Author)
3.38 of 5 Votes: 3
ISBN
0374322384 (ISBN13: 9780374322380)
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English
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
review 1: The the book, Everything Beautiful in the World, by Lisa Levchuk is very enjoyable and hard to put down. In the book, Edna faces the many challenges of life. Her mother has cancer, she barely speaks with her father, has an affair with her teacher, and ends up running away. Because her mom is sick with cancer, Edna uses that to her advantage with having people feel sorry for her. She comes to class late, misses tennis practices, and sometimes doesn't even show up for school at all. Edna's world is very dark and dismal until she starts her affair with Mr. Howland. He makes her feel safe and happy. Edna knows that what they are doing is wrong,and that she is hurting herself and her best friend, and doesn't confess to herself until the end of the book when she visits her mom f... moreor the first time since she's been in the hospital. Edna's visit makes her realize how lucky she is to have her mom still alive. She's happy that her mother forgives her and cannot wait for her mother to come home. This book is similar to the book I once read, What My Mother Doesn't Know. It has a similar moral of the story.
review 2: It is so far about a girl named Ester and her mother in diagnosed with cancer and is put into the hospital. She is denial and starts to have an affair with her art teacher, Mr. Howland. She refuses to see her mother and isn’t sad about her getting cancer because she wouldn’t have been able to be with Mr. Howland. Now her wife has found out about the affair between Ester and Mr.Howland. They have to face the struggles of getting caught and someone else fidning out. Then Ester finally comes to grips with her feeling of her mtoher having cancer when she starts crying durning one of her therapy sautions less
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Nat
First novel by a colleague. Good story about a girl growing up in the challenging high school years.
Giti
This could have been creepy, sad, and gorgeous -- instead it was mostly just creepy and sad. :(
boome
It fit my life to a perfect "T." Would definitely read it again!
liz
About a girl dating her teacher. Very strange.
bribroday
interesting book; I thought it was good.
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