Review: Holding Up the Universe

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I purchased this at Kew & Willow. This is a book on the 9-10 NYC Reads 365 list.

I'm not sure what it is about young adult books with their shifting first-person perspectives. It works well in this book, but it's not my favorite. I like that Niven mostly alternates their perspectives, but I still get confused for a split second who the narrator is.

The book states that about one in fifty people have prosopagnosia. I'm not sure how accurate this is, but a quick Google search seems to confirm that. This probably means that I must know someone who has this to some degree, but I don't know about it. I really can't fathom it, but I guess Jack's condition is on the severe end of the spectrum.

I'm not entirely convinced of the romance in this book, but as a novel that has really opened my eyes to what others go through, I give it a pass.

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