Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010) is a novel written by two young-adult fiction authors John Green and David Levithan. John Green is the author of well-known novel The Fault In Our Stars. David Levithan’s production includes works like Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Every You, Every Me.

The novel tells a story about two teens, both of them named Will Grayson. Other one tries to live his life without being noticed and the other has an online relationship with a guy he has never met. Boys have different lives which are suddenly going new directions. And then there is Tiny Cooper, huge and determined high school student and playwright. He is best friend of Will1 and later Will2’s boyfriend. So Tiny is gay and he definitely doesn’t hide it or his largeness.

In the book every second chapter is about Will Grayson1 and every other is about Will Grayson2 and those chapter have written with small letters. Green wrote capitalized Will Grayson’s story (Will1) and Levithan wrote about lower case will grayson (Will2). Novel’s narrator is first-person, Will1 or Will2, so narrator and point of view change always when new chapter begins. The plot of novel itself is pretty simple so characters’ growth and development comes out well.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson is a story about friendship and life. It’s about menthal growth and exceeding yourself. But I have to say that two stories which have main characters with the same name is a little bit challenging equation, but you get used to it quite quickly. In spite of all I liked the novel. Characters were all different and that’s why they complete each other so well. Especially I liked Will Grayson2 who exceeds himself in the end of the story only because of Tiny Cooper and his greatness. The novel ends to the Tiny’s play which is totally worth reading. All in all novel was good and I can recommend it to everyone and I’m sure that I’ll read more John Green’s and mayde David Levithan’s novels.