Episode 73: Opposite of Always (New Reads November)

Opposite of Always

It’s the final week of New Reads November 2019, and Jeopardy! champ (and SSR fan!) Emma Boettcher is joining Alli to discuss Opposite of Always, the 2019 debut novel from Justin A. Reynolds. On this episode, Alli and Emma chat about the book’s unique time travel structure, unrequited love within friendships, and the reasons it can be difficult for us as adults to buy into the intensity of young relationships in teen books, movies, and TV. They also muse about some of the bigger questions explored in Opposite of Always: How much is too much to give up for someone you love? What is the real responsibility in supporting someone? How much would you sacrifice in one relationship for the sake of another?

CHECK OUT EMMA’S BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer

MORE READING:

“Opposite of Always” (Kirkus Reviews, 2019)

“Opposite of Always” (Publishers Weekly, 2019)

“Book Review: Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds” (The Young Folks, 2019)

“Time Travel Makes Love Possible in Opposite of Always” (Chicago Review of Books, 2019)

“Opposite of Always: Paramount Players To Adapt Justin A. Reynolds’ Debut Novel” (Shadow And Act, 2019)

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