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They Both Die at the End

Adam Silvera

  • 373 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 15 editions
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1 About this book

Shortly after midnight on September 5, a company called Death-Cast phones Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio with the same news: each of them will die within twenty-four hours. The two teenagers are strangers. Mateo is an introvert who decides to push himself to really live; Rufus is in the middle of a bad night and has to say goodbye to his foster family in a hurry. Neither wants to spend his End Day alone, and they find each other through an app called Last Friend. Together they set out across New York City to fit a lifetime into a single day.

  • Romance
  • Adventure
  • Friendship
  • Death
  • Gay men
  • Gays
  • Love
  • New york

2 What to expect

A young adult novel set over a single day, in a world where people get a phone call on the day they will die. Two teenage boys, strangers at first, spend that day together, and friendship turns into romance. It deals directly with death, grief and what it means to live fully. It is sad, as the title warns, and contemplative, with warmth.

Good for readers who want: an emotional young adult story, LGBTQ romance, and questions about living fully.

3 About Adam Silvera

Born 1990

Adam Silvera (born June 7, 1990) is an American author of young adult fiction. His work frequently centers on queer characters and explores themes of identity, grief, and mortality. He is known for the bestselling novels More Happy Than Not (2015), History Is All You Left Me (2017), and They Both Die at the End (2017), which gained renewed public interest in 2020 through Tiktok's BookTok sub-community.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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