Title: Everything Happens Today
Description: Wes attends Manhattan'ss elite Dalton School and lives in Greenwich Village in a dilapidated town house with his terminally ill mother, distant father and beloved younger sister. In the course of one day everything will happen to Wes: he will lose his virginity to the wrong girl and break his own heart, try to meet a Monday morning deadline for a paper on War and Peace, and prepare an elaborate supper he hopes will reunite his family.
Subjects: Terminally ill parents, Teenage boys, Families, Fiction, Teenagers, Interpersonal relations, Family life, Fiction, general, Greenwich (conn.), fiction