The First Thing About You

De: Chaz Hayden

Narrado por: Tobias Forrest

A high school student with spinal muscular atrophy is determined to reinvent himself in a hilarious and poignant debut from an exciting new voice.

When fifteen-year-old Harris moves with his family from California (home of beautiful-but-inaccessible beaches) to New Jersey (home of some much-hyped pizza and bagels), he’s determined to be known as more than just the kid in the powered wheelchair. Armed with his favorite getting-to-know-you question (“What’s your favorite color?”), he’ll weed out the incompatible people—the greens and the purples, people who are too close to his own blue to make for good friends—and surround himself with outgoing yellows, adventurous oranges, and even thrilling reds. But first things first: he needs to find a new nurse, stat, so that his mom doesn’t have to keep accompanying him to school.

Enter Miranda, a young nursing student who graduated from Harris’s new high school. Beautiful, confident, and the perfect blend of orange and red, Miranda sees Harris for who he really is—funny, smart, and totally worthy of the affections of Nory Fischer, the cute girl who’s in most of his classes. With Miranda at his side, Harris soon befriends geeky Zander (yellow) and even makes headway with Nory (who stubbornly refuses to reveal her favorite color). But Miranda is fighting her own demons, and Harris starts to wonder if she truly has his best interests at heart.

I couldn’t stop listening!!!

The characters in this book were so relatable! Although this book was more about the complexity of human relationships, it gave a great insight into the world of a person with a handicap & all the challenges they experience. We all have the same emotional & social struggles that everyone does in all relationships. We rely on others & are all doing our best with the tools we are given to hopefully grow as a person. Gratitude for those who show up for us and forgiveness for those who have their own personal work to do is the message I received. The narrator brought the characters to life so much that I felt as though I knew them! I loved listening to this book & always looked forward to the next chapter. The readers voice was captivating & one of best I have ever listened to in an audiobook!!