He is a closeted gay teen struggling with depression. Levithan’s Will Grayson, while showing equal capacities for wit and intelligence, is a completely different character dealing with a harsher set of issues. He often acts in contradiction to this desire to stay under the radar, for example by being best friends with the flamboyant Tiny Cooper (more on him in a moment). He lists his own two main rules for life as “don’t care too much” and “shut up” believing that all pain and awkwardness can be avoided if they are followed. John Green’s Will is a masterful balance of self-aware and emotionally immature. The chapters alternate between each of their first person points of view. Where I think the novel really succeeds is in the differentiation between each Will Grayson, especially when it comes to the development of each Will’s voice. As their worlds collide and intertwine, the Will Graysons find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, building toward romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history’s most fabulous high school musical. Here is the goodreads blurb: One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two teens-both named Will Grayson-are about to cross paths. They wrote their parts separately and the rest, as no one in the novel would say because it is much too clichéd, is history. Green wrote the odd numbered chapters and Levithan wrote the even ones. They began with a concept – two boys with the same name meeting. Instead of trying to agree on each aspect of the book Green and Levithan split the work evenly down the middle. Once I looked into their writing process, how the authors collaborated was almost as interesting to me as the story itself. Still, I wasn’t sure how their co-written YA novel, Will Grayson, Will Grayson, would measure up.
I am a huge fan of John Green and also very much enjoyed Every Day by David Levithan. Published by Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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