Everybody But Us

by Ben Rose

Building a home outside the one they lost

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Building a home outside the one they lost

Fifteen-year-old Destiny is expelled from her family home after her parents learn she is bisexual. In New York City, she meets Mackenzie, a 14-year-old runaway struggling with alcoholism. Their relationship and the support of two other teens become the basis of a makeshift family, as the girls navigate life without dependable parental care. The description foregrounds rejection, queer identity, homelessness, addiction, and the effort to create belonging when family support is absent.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

Teens and young adults interested in stories about queer identity and family rejection.
Readers seeking fiction about runaways, homelessness, and young people forming alternative support networks.
Readers interested in a relationship story that also addresses addiction and parental rejection.

Themes

Queer identity and family rejectionAlternative family and belongingHomelessness and survivalAlcoholism

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Book overview

15-year-old Destiny Willbury is raised in a dogmatic family and church. When her parents discover that she is bisexual, they subject her to conversion therapy and then kick her out of their house. Alone and scared she is rescued by three liberal college students. Arriving in New York City, Destiny meets Mackenzie Guevara, a 14-year-old, alcoholic, runaway. They fall in love and survive together with the help of an upper-middle-class female high school student and a male teenage hustler with a heart of gold and balls of brass. Life comes together for the foursome, but when the boy and the girl must depart to continue their own lives, Mackenzie's drinking increases threatening everything the girls have built.

Who gets a warm home to live in?

Everybody but us.

Who gets loving parents to nurture them?

Everybody but us.

Who gets all the breaks in life?

Everybody but us.

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