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    The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days
    The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days
    The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days

    Written by Lisa Yee

    Narrated by Ramón de Ocampo

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Lisa Yee gives us her most fascinating flawed genius since Millicent Min. Higgs Boson Bing has seven days left before his perfect high school career is completed. Then it's on to Harvard to fulfill the fantasy portrait of success that he and his parents have cultivated for the past four years. Four years of academic achievement. Four years of debate championships. Two years of dating the most popular girl in school. It was, literally, everything his parents could have wanted. Everything they wanted for Higgs's older brother Jeffrey, in fact. But something's not right. And when Higgs's girlfriend presents him with a seemingly innocent hypothetical question about whether or not he'd give her a kidney . . . the exposed fault lines reach straight down to the foundations of his life. . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 31, 2015
    ISBN9781490676647
    The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days

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    • 5/5
      Having been named after a long sought particle, Higgs Boson Bing might feel pretty inadequate, or at least insecure. Instead, everything is in his favor. Seven days of school left until graduation, top grades, hot girlfriend and on the fast track for Harvard. On the pre-graduation cruise, his girlfriend poses a hypothetical question: Would he give her a kidney if she needed one? He chooses the wrong answer and his charmed life begins to go up in flames. He loses the girlfriend, his status and all of a sudden everyone has him on their pariah list, even resulting in someone turning him in for a seemingly minor fib on his application to Harvard.When he meets mysterious, tattooed girl, Monarch who's seemingly living in an abandoned airstream trailer by a gravel pit, his life takes some interesting turns that at first seem scary and unfortunate, but life has a way of turning in directions we never knew were possible and the interaction between Higgs and Monarch, who isn't what she seems, starts him down a whole new road.This is funny, angsty and probably depicts the more ludicrous aspects of teen relationship drama more accurately than most realize. I liked it a lot and expect teens who enjoy offbeat characters in squirmy situations to like it as well.
    • 3/5
      Higgs Boson Bing has been dating Roo for over two years. While Higgs is firmly planted on the graduation stage as the valedictorian, but girlfriend, Roo will be sitting on the back row. But, she's beautiful and fun, so it's all good huh? Until one day someone asks;
      "Higgs, if Roo needed a kidney, would you give her one of yours?” A simple question, no? But when Higgs Boson Bing refuses to answer the question, claiming he doesn’t like hypotheticals, his last week of high school takes a turn for the worse.

      The epic downfall of Higgs Boson, once one the school’s elite, is suddenly and I mean the whole book spans a short 7 days, becomes an object of ridicule around his school. His best friend practically turns his back on him and all the cringe-worthy memories of his high school career are brought back to him in this painful seven-day period. In the midst of all this, his parents’ marriage is falling apart and his acceptance to Harvard is being re-evaluated due to a bogus community service act that sounded good on paper, but not in reality.
    • 5/5
      Higgs Boson Bing has it all – beautiful girlfriend, popularity, great family, great grades, acceptance to Harvard, lots of high school accomplishments. However, he loses it all during his last week of high school. The only upside is meeting Monarch – a girl totally opposite of all he seeks to be – the perfect son to carry on the Harvard dentist tradition. During this last week of his high school career, Higgs discovers some valuable life lesson – be true to yourself, don’t try to be what you thing others want you to be, don’t hurt others but if you do, make a sincere apology – and ends up being who he is. Unfortunately, Monarch is not all she appears to be but that is left open. Interesting life lessons.
    • 3/5
      Just one week before Higgs Boson Bing finishes his seemingly perfect high school career, a hypothetical question from his girlfriend reveals the cracks that could swiftly bring his carefully-ordered world crashing to the ground.
    • 3/5
      Funny, but ultimately light with a touch too much manic pixie dream girl for my taste.