| New York : Delacorte Press, | Summary: In this story set in New York City and told in alternate timelines, teenaged best friends Cleo and Layla fall apart. Title: When you were everything / Ashley Woodfolk.ĭescription: First edition. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.ĭelacorte Press is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC.Įducators and librarians, for a variety of teaching tools, visit us at Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.Ĭover art copyright © 2019 by Rebecca GlendiningĪll rights reserved.
Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Although there are many characters to keep track of, and it’s not always clear who knows whom and how well, Woodfolk eloquently depicts how 16-year-olds live in the digital and physical worlds, how the latter can amplify the former, how relationships shift after someone dies, and how life goes on, if you let it. The three are also linked by their connections, some closer than others, to Unraveling Lovely, a local indie band that might have made it big if Logan hadn’t messed things up. Autumn’s loss is the most recent Logan’s happened months ago, and he thinks he should be over it.
When the book opens, Autumn’s best friend, Tavia, has just been killed in a car crash Shay’s twin sister, Sasha, has succumbed to the leukemia she’s had since she was 11 and Logan’s ex-boyfriend, Bram, has committed suicide. Each of the book’s narrators is struggling with grief.
In a strong debut, set on a realistically diverse Long Island, Woodfolk surveys the devastation of those left behind after the deaths of three teenagers, and their tentative efforts to move forward.
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