Holding Up the Universe

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Why are people getting annoyed and commenting that a 'skinny' author shouldn't be writing about a 'fat' person?

And let me tell you, there is one part where Libby stands up to the whole school in such a way that I cried my eyes out. Jack desde hace años sufre una terrible condición que lo obliga a estar todo el tiempo en alerta y a tener por amigos y novia a las personas menos indicadas. Sure, exploring the challenges of attitudes that may be put to the person with that condition, and also exploring the fears, doubts, that person may have with that experience is essential and necessary, but you have to be careful about exploring it, because it can easily become a point where you become reductive in detailing that person's experience(s). Don't go into reading Jennifer Niven's new novel, Holding Up the Universe, thinking this is going to be identical to the phenomenal All the Bright Places (which made my list of the best books I read last year), in tone or the emotional power of its subject matter. Her books have been translated in over 75 languages, and All the Bright Places has won literary awards around the world, including the GoodReads Choice Award for Best Young Adult Fiction of 2015.

as for the human race thing, it was never implied that she wasn't human, just that she was ready to go back to school.

One day, I decided to share some of my opinions on some great - and not so great - books to people around the world.For example, there were a few darker thoughts from jack, but all of sudden he seemed to be considering suicide without any spiralling or progressively darker thoughts? Fan’s of Niven’s first book, All the Bright Places, will be thrilled to pick up Holding Up the Universe.

And the way she stands up to how she's treated, challenges the views of others and impossible beauty standards, it's like her own feminist campaign.

She does finally reach that point (when the crane is brought out) that her dad knows that help is needed. He's the guy who can re-engineer and rebuild anything, but he can't understand what's going on with the inner workings of his own brain.