I believe I am going to have to say that this is my new, all time favorite book! I don’t think that I have ever read anything like it! Honestly, I probably would have never picked this book to up to read had it not been chosen as the book of the month for a book club that I am a part of.  The synopsis in the front of the book just does not do it justice and I do not think that my description will either, but I will give you just a small glance of this profoundly moving novel.

The chapters in the book rotate between the point of view of both Noah and Jude who are twins.  Noah’s perspective is told from the past when the twins were thirteen and Jude’s story is told from the present, three years later, and the twins are sixteen.  At thirteen, the twins are super close.  Noah is somewhat of an outcast who is constantly drawing and is falling in love with someone completely unexpected while Jude is an outgoing, brave dare devil is on the verge of becoming “that girl” according to her mom.  Three years later, the twins are completely different people who are barely speaking to each other.  Something as wrecked their lives and the both have reacted in completely ways.  What the twins don’t know is that each of them only half of the story.  The begins to spill over when Jude meets her “split apart” and hermit of an artist who both play an unbelievable part in her life that she is completely unaware of.

This novel is beautifully written! I thing this one review completely sums it up:

“Jandy Nelson’s writing is poetic and mesmerizing. More importantly, Nelson weaves a novel that seeps into your bones like fire on a cold day . . . I’ll Give You the Sun is a novel that promises a story like nothing else and then delivers it.” —Garret Freymann-Weyr, author of Printz Honor book, My Heartbeat