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Another Day is a companion book to the wonderful young adult novel Every Day by David Levithan.

In Every Day, we read the story from the perspective of A, a person who inhabits a different person's life each and every day. Another Day is told from the perspective of Rhiannon, the young woman that A finds him/herself attracted to. A is a teenager, and always winds up in another teen's body of about the same age and in the same geographic region. In the first novel, A first meets Rhiannon when s/he inhabits the body of Rhiannon's abusive boyfriend. Because A takes over each person's functions for the course of one day, A is able to access that person's memories, core values, and get a sense of who that person is. Knowing that Rhiannon's boyfriend is awful, A takes Rhiannon on a date to the beach -- in what turns out to be one of the best days of Rhiannon's mediocre life.
In Another Day we get inside Rhiannon's head, and we can see her confusion when her boyfriend suddenly starts treating her well, if just for a day. We see her disbelief, her fears, her insecurities. And eventually, we see her hope that A might be exactly who and what A claims to be.
I absolutely adored the first book, and handed out to as many teen readers as I could after its publication. I bought ten copies for my libraries. I was very much looking forward to Another Day's publication, hoping it would be a sequel that continued A's story. That disappointment aside, this is another well-crafted David Levithan story that puts us in another person's shoes.
Readers who've experienced the first story (and hopefully everyone has) will know what is coming, since they've seen most of the story from a different perspective.  As with all other Levithan books I've read, Another Day handles a sensitive topic with compassion and sincerity. The essential question of the first book continues in the second: does gender matter when it comes to love? Fans of LGBTQ fiction absolutely loved the first book and have been excited to hear about the sequel. More importantly, this is a work that will hopefully find an audience beyond the kids who normally pick up LGBTQ fiction. These two books are ultimately not stories about gender or queer issues, but about finding yourself and being who you are, even if you are someone else every day -- or another day.