![]() ![]() I considered contacting her and suggesting an interview. I searched for interviews with Yoon and reviews of the book, hoping to find out more about her bold choice to take on such a rare subject. It was compared to John Green’s “The Fault in Our Stars”, a love story mixed with the obstacles of disease, and was expected to have the same success. Nicola Yoon’s “Everything, Everything” was advertised to be the next big hit, with expectations of a movie deal (). Primary immunodeficiencies are rarely presented in the media, beyond the occasional news piece, so finding a book that was predicted to grace the best-seller list felt like a step in the right direction. As an employee of Immunodeficiency Canada, I was excited. In early September, I heard about a new Young Adult novel that had a main character with SCID (Severe Combined Immune Defiency). How Nicola Yoon’s YA Novel Misrepresents Primary Immunodeficiency ![]()
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