Every Day

A has never had a body of their own. Each morning brings a new one: a different house, a different family, a different set of friends, always someone of roughly the same age. There is no warning about who it will be or where, and A has long since settled into a set of rules to cope. Don't get attached. Don't draw attention. Don't interfere with the life being borrowed for the day. Then A wakes up as Justin and meets his girlfriend, Rhiannon. Something about her undoes everything A has trained themselves to do. For the first time, A wants to stay close to one person, not just pass through a life and move on, and the rules that once kept things safe start to feel like a cage. As the days pass, A and Rhiannon have to work out whether love can survive when one of them is a different person every morning. The story looks at what we actually love in someone, how much identity depends on the body we live in, and how much of ourselves we would risk for another person. Along the way it moves between tender, funny and quietly unsettling, as A sees the ordinary and extraordinary lives of the strangers they briefly become. David Levithan, co-author of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and Will Grayson, Will Grayson, builds a love story around an unusual premise. It was later adapted into a film.