Holding Up the Universe Audiobook (Free)

A BRAND NEW York Situations Bestseller

From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Areas comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to find out someone-and love someone-for who they are.

Everyone feels they find out Libby Strout, the lady once dubbed “America’s Fattest Teenager.” But no one’s taken the time to appear past her pounds to get to know who she is really. Following her mom’s death, she’s been picking right up the parts in the privacy of her house, dealing with her about Holding Up the Universe heartbroken dad and her own grief. Now, Libby’s ready: for high school, for brand-new friends, for love, and for each POSSIBILITY LIFE HAS TO OFFER. In that minute, I understand the part I want to play here at MVB Large. I want to be the lady who can perform anything.

Everyone feels they know Jack port Masselin, too. Yes, he’s got swagger, but he’s also learned the impossible artwork of giving people what they want, of installing in. What nobody knows is certainly that Jack has a recently acquired secret: he can’t identify faces. Also his personal brothers are strangers to him. He’s the guy who are able to re-engineer and repair anything in brand-new and bad-ass ways, but he can’t understand what’s happening with the internal workings of his brain. So he tells himself to try out it cool: Be wonderful. Be hilarious. Don’t get too near anyone.

Until he meets Libby. When the two obtain tangled up within a cruel senior high school game-which lands them in group counseling and community service-Libby and Jack port are both pissed, and surprised. Because the more time they spend jointly, the less only they experience . . Because sometimes when you meet someone, it adjustments the globe, theirs and yours.

Jennifer Niven delivers another poignant, exhilarating like story about discovering that person who views you for who all you are-and seeing them back.

‘Niven is adept at creating personas. . . . [Libby’s] courage and body-positivity lead to a joyful reading knowledge.’ –The New York Times

“SUPPORTING the Universe . . . taps in to the universal need to be grasped. To be needed. And that’s why is it such an extraordinary read.” -TeenVogue.com, “As to why New Book SUPPORTING the Universe Is the Next The Problem in Our Stars”

‘Want a like story which will give you all the feels? . . . You’ll significantly melt!’ -Seventeen Magazine