Why? Because her father was a frequently chosen sperm donor.

The plot of this novel revolves around a teenager named Harper who, through the power of social media, learns that she has over 40 half-siblings. Welcome back! I have another blog tour review today and this one is for a YA contemporary novel called The Epic Story of Every Living Thing. If you’d like to follow along with the rest of the tour, you can find the tour schedule here. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. About the Authorĭeb Caletti is the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of nearly twenty books for adults and young adults, including Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. The events of that summer, and the man they discover-a charismatic deep-sea diver obsessed with solving the mystery of a fragile sunken shipwreck-will force Harper to face some even bigger questions: Who is she? Is she her DNA, her experiences, her successes, her failures? Is she the things she loves-or the things she hates? Who she is in dark times? Who she might become after them? Purchase/Information Links:įor a list of warnings, tropes, and representation for these book, check out. So, fresh from a painful breakup and still reeling with anxiety that reached a lifetime high during the pandemic, Harper joins her newfound half siblings on a voyage to Hawaii to face their father. When a chance Instagram post connects Harper to a half sibling, that connection yields many more and ultimately leads Harper to uncover her father’s identity.

She’s convinced that without knowing him, she can’t know herself.

Harper Proulx has lived her whole life with unanswered questions about her anonymous sperm donor father. When a teen travels to Hawaii to track down her sperm donor father, she discovers the truth about him, about the sunken shipwreck that’s become his obsession, and most of all about herself. From the award-winning author of Honey, Baby, Sweetheart comes a gorgeous and fiercely feminist young adult novel.

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti