Grass, the sun, pets, Southern California air? They could all kill her. The book traffics in many of the conventions young adult fiction is known for (melodrama, dubiously justified disdain for parental figures, general teen angst), but Maddy Whittier is an exceptionally sheltered protagonist: She never leaves her meticulously decontaminated house, lest she come into contact with any common contagion. The only people Madeline interacts with regularly are her mother (a doctor) and her nurse, Carla her father and young brother died in a car accident when she was a toddler.
Yoon’s debut novel, Everything, Everything, tells the story of 18-year-old Madeline Whittier, a girl whose entire life has been shaped by her experiences with an incurable disorder called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). And that version of the fish is the fish that started it all." "He is the best thing because he got up and made coffee, gave me a kiss, and asked me no questions. "I woke my husband up … and I’m like, ‘Honey, honey! Draw me a fish,’" Yoon told me when we spoke by phone last month.
inspiration struck, she called on her husband, David, to sketch out the complement she needed for her debut novel. The best-selling young adult fiction author has worn many hats over the course of her career - investment bank employee, writer, mother, advocate - but the visual arts still elude her.
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