By: Wendy Wunder
Narrator: Georgina Sadler
ISBN: 9781250349903
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date: 08/27/2024
Format: Audio
My Rating: TBR
From acclaimed author Wendy Wunder comes a sharp and hilarious coming-of-age novel for fans of John Green and Nicola Yoon about an omniscient teenage girl who must grapple with whether there’s such a thing as knowing too much...
Seventeen-year-old Maya knows everything. When she looks at someone, she instantly knows their history, their private thoughts, their secret desires, their most tragic failures. Combine these private miseries with the general state of the world, and it's easy to see why Maya's power starts to get her down…
Which is why she was sent to the Whispering Pines Psychiatric Facility, and also why starting at a new school is going to be such a challenge. Now, faced with Tyler, a cute guy she actually wants to know everything about, Maya realizes that maybe her power isn't so horrible after all. Maybe she can use it for good. Maybe she can even get the guy. Or maybe there really is such a thing as knowing too much.
Praise
New England Book Awards Finalist
"Seamlessly moving between the humorous and horrific realities of Maya’s omniscience, Wunder (The Museum of Intangible Things) chronicles the protagonist’s stay at Whispering Pines and her eventual enrollment at a new school where she makes a friend and happens upon potential romance."
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"The depiction of Gen Z anxieties feels spot on…A humorous and stimulating reading experience.”
- Kirkus
"A poignant, funny, and relatable story."
- Booklist
"Wunder’s strong voice and intense emotion takes on real Gen Z issues with heart and humor. Maya’s story tells us that just because you’re omniscient doesn’t mean you don’t have things to learn. And her journey is all backed by a great soundtrack."
―Gretchen Schreiber, author of Ellie Haycock Is Totally Normal
"Sharp, hilarious, heartfelt."
―Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author
About the Author
Wendy Wunder is the star-reviewed author of The Probability of Miracles, The Museum of Intangible Things, and Mysterious Ways. When not writing, she often works as a rogue librarian and is currently a bookseller at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She lives in Boston with her writer husband, dancer daughter and two dopey (but adorable) pets with no particular talent.
