The Queen of Everything, Deb Caletti
The Queen of Everything, Deb Caletti
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The Queen of Everything

Author: Deb Caletti

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2010

Synopsis

Jordan MacKenzie had a typical teenage life until her father's affair with a married woman threatens to implode her entire world in this searing and poignant novel from Printz Honor medal winner and National Book Award finalist Deb Caletti.People ask me all the time what having Vince MacKenzie for a father was like. What they mean is, was he always crazy?High school junior Jordan MacKenzie's life was pretty typical: fractured family, new boyfriend, dead-end job. She'd been living with her father, the predictable optometrist, since her mother, the hippie holdover, had become too embarrassing to be around. Jordan felt that she finally had as normal a life as she could. Then came Gayle D'Angelo.Jordan knew her father was dating Gayle and that Gayle was married. Jordan knew it was wrong and that her father was becoming someone she didn't recognize anymore, but what could she do about it? And how could she—how could anyone—have possibly guessed that this illicit love affair would implode in such a violent and disturbing way?

About Deb Caletti

Deb Caletti’s first novel for teens was The Queen of Everything, was nominated for YALSA's Best Books for Young Adults, and was chosen for PSLA's Top Forty of 2003 and the International Reading Association's Young Adult Choices for 2004. Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a National Book Award finalist, was Deb's second book for teens. Deb lives with her family part-time on acreage in Issaquah, a Seattle suburb, and part-time in the city on a houseboat. She steals her best lines from her mother, her kids, and the dog, who doesn't seem to mind. You can visit her at www.debcaletti.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Morgan on July 21, 2010

I really did love this book. So, to clarify, I would rate it 4.5 stars if I could. It's about Jordan, an average teenager with divorced parents. She lives with her father, a predictable optometrist because her mother is too eccentric for her tastes. Her summer after her junior year was off to a norm......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne on April 12, 2008

This is a book I just could not put down. Well, ok, I put it down a couple of times but it was for things like eating and sleeping and going to the bathroom, all things us humans (especially the pregnant ones) need to do (a lot). Anywho, what a page turner! I knew what was going to happen, protagoni......more

Goodreads review by Emily on May 06, 2012

I first read this in the 7th grade, and I remember loving it. I frequently read it while walking to school and ended up walking into parked cars all the damn time. Reread it as an almost-21 year old. My god was it infuriating. One, the fat jokes and incessant talking about 'sweaty, thick fingered, r......more

Goodreads review by Valarie on February 18, 2012

This was the 4th Deb Caletti book I have read. I found 'The Fortunes of Indigo Skye' at the library and was quickly hooked on Caletti as a writer. The Queen of Everything is not Caletti's best. It is one of her earliest books, and the others I have read are much better. Caletti definitely has a gift......more

Goodreads review by Norah on May 19, 2023

Reading The Queen of Everything genuinely took me more time than reading Murakami’s 1000-page-long 1Q84. The first two hundred pages were filled with tedious detail that I didn’t appreciate until I had finished the book. Just from the blurb, I thought it would be a lot more murder-y and a lot less w......more

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