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Wide Awake Now
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Every Day, this is a queer love story set against the backdrop of the 2024 presidential election, in a reimagining of David Levithan’s 2004 novel Wide Awake.
When David Levithan published Wide Awake in 2004, he set it in an imagined 2024, where a gay Jewish man had just been elected president of the United States, until a governor decides that some election results in his state are invalid, awarding crucial votes to the other candidate and his fellow party member. What follows is the story of teens Jimmy and Duncan as they explore their relationship, their politics, and their country.
In Wide Awake Now, David Levithan is flipping the script and rewriting Jimmy and Duncan’s story in the real 2024, rather than his imagined version. This is a protest novel for today.
Once again, David Levithan proves the critical importance of standing up for what you believe in and the cost of apathy in today’s political climate.
When David Levithan published Wide Awake in 2004, he set it in an imagined 2024, where a gay Jewish man had just been elected president of the United States, until a governor decides that some election results in his state are invalid, awarding crucial votes to the other candidate and his fellow party member. What follows is the story of teens Jimmy and Duncan as they explore their relationship, their politics, and their country.
In Wide Awake Now, David Levithan is flipping the script and rewriting Jimmy and Duncan’s story in the real 2024, rather than his imagined version. This is a protest novel for today.
Once again, David Levithan proves the critical importance of standing up for what you believe in and the cost of apathy in today’s political climate.
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“this book made me so mad that i couldn’t even finish it. halfway through, i’m giving up. this is the most out of touch representation of queer teenagers i’ve ever seen. we don’t act like this. we don’t talk like this. i don’t greet my friends as “gay jew boy” or “afro-chinese lesbian”. that’s weird and honestly? a little bit offensive because you’re literally showing us that you’ve created these characters to be tokens. to be a stereotype of something we know. also, naming the one black character keisha. are you kidding. AND making one of the two lesbians in the one lesbian couple cheat on the other one. i’m TIRED of the infidelity stereotype lesbians face!!!! women aren’t two timing mistresses. stop making lesbians evil. the cheating plotline adds absolutely nothing to the story. it was inserted only to fill the cheating lesbian stereotype. this is also such white savior mindset like are you kidding me. this is the most wealthy white democrat book i’ve ever read. it’s faux-progressive capitalist propaganda disguised as queer romance. half the book is shitty character design and writing, the other half is lukewarm political takes and shitty soapbox preaching. also, duncan might be the most bland, irredeemable, boring main character i’ve ever had the misfortune of reading about. i didn’t get to the end of the book, but i hope jimmy dumps him for being a leech. i genuinely cannot express how entirely disappointed i am in this book. i thought it was gonna be at least decent. not to mention how tone deaf it is, considering the current political climate. i just hope that before trying to make any more political novels, david levithan learns anything about politics and political theory at all! the total ignorant optimism was exhausting from the beginning. i hate this book. i’d rather be waterboarded than have to read any of it again”
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About David Levithan
David Levithan is the author of several books for young adults, including Lambda Literary Award winner Two Boys Kissing; Every Day; Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (co-authored with Rachel Cohn); Will Grayson, Will Grayson (co-authored with John Green); and Boy Meets Boy. In 2016, David received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for his significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.
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