{"id":6894,"date":"2016-04-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2016-04-28T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:15:53","slug":"kidney-hypothetical-by-lisa-yee-is-y-book-review-perfect-senior-year-turned-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=6894","title":{"rendered":"Kidney Hypothetical by Lisa Yee is Y (book review) – perfect senior year turned upside down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>One big “what if?” question<\/a>,
\nOne not-so-smooth answer,
\nOne life plan crumbling away…<\/p>\n

Higgs is content to follow the detailed plan for his future – early admission to Harvard, becoming a dentist like his father and grandfather – but everything goes sour with that random question just before graduation.<\/p>\n

Then he meets free-spirit Monarch and things take a different path utterly and entirely.<\/p>\n

How do you bounce back when a slip-up derails your plans?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>:\u00a0 The Kidney Hypothetical, or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days \/ Lisa Yee. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015. [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: For Higgs, his future as a Harvard-educated dentist like his dad (and as planned for his deceased older brother) is all set, until his answer to a hypothetical question starts a chain reaction of awful at his California high school and brings wild and wonderful Monarch into his life just before graduation.<\/p>\n

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