Rhiannon is predictable* and true, sticking close to home and staying put in the body she was born with. A. doesn’t have a real name, because he’s a spirit*, switching* without choice from one teenage host* to the next and, for just 24 hours, replacing its soul and consciousness with his own. David Levithan’s novel asks: Can love possibly find a way around that?

A. meets Rhiannon after he wakes up in the body of Justin, her boyfriend. A. has access* to the memories of whichever body he’s borrowing. And he thinks that Justin doesn’t appreciate her enough. A. falls madly in love with her.

He keeps waking up in new bodies and finding his way back to her.

Each time he visits her, he must convince* her of the constant* soul within the inconstant form, and she must thrill to* it, even though he is skinny and then fat, Asian then black, male then female, and on and on.

“The only way to keep going,” the author writes, “is to see every person as a possibility.” (SD-Agencies)