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2000s: How does a sixteen year old with cancer and her family cope?
All The Water in the World
What you need to know before your trail
Maddy is sixteen. Deeply curious, wry and vivacious, she’s poised at the outset of adulthood. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she’s unusually close, a father she’s never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer.
Hungry for experience despite living in the shadow of illness, Maddy seeks out her first romantic relationship, ponders philosophical questions, finds solace in music and art, and tracks down her father, Antonio. She continually tests the depths and limits of her closeness with her mother, while Eve has to come to terms with the daughter she loves and only partly knows, in a world she can’t control.
Travel Guide
Visit All the Water in the World, well Pennsylvania
The novel is vague on setting although a lake house in Pennsylvania is the main location – the lake becomes a symbol for where Maddy goes to seek comfort, where they ride their bikes, go for walks etc.
The lake is also a symbol for Maddy who has terminal cancer -her father disappeared after her birth as he claimed he didn’t want children so the lake is her search for the man who contributed half her gene pool.
There are also themes of the climate and environment to showcase the beauty of the world despite the tragedy in peoples’ lives.
As well as Pennyslvannia, there are mentions of Washington DC and London.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: All the Water in the World
Destination : Pennsylvania Author/Guide: Karen Raney Departure Time: 2000s
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