Everything Happens Today - Jesse Browner

Jesse Browner's dazzling new novel 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.

Everything Happens Today is funny, moving, generous and
exhilarating.
With a classic structure that nods, inevitably, to Mrs. Dalloway and
characters
worthy of comparison to those created by J.D. Salinger, Everything
Happens
Today will enchant young adults who see themselves in the story as
well as
adult readers who will be captured by the deeply sympathetic characters
and the
acute feel for the way we live now. Most readers will want it never to
be
over.