When Will Tuppence was young his neighbour told him about protons. How everything is made from them and even if you die, your protons would still exist vibrating away. Will has built his life around knowing this idea, and knowing that has made him feel safe. The beginning of the book starts off with the news that scientists have recorded, for the first time ever, the death of a proton. Subsequent chapters are there after labeled in PD, or days after Proton Death.
Will seems to feel he has a good understanding on his life, he has his two friends Mi-Su, and BT aka Anthony Bontempo who play monopoly with him every week, with BT always showing late. Will’s life has been filled with these very expected moments, his little sister Tabby bent on tormenting him one black jelly bean at a time, but the death of the proton lingers over him like a sign that things are about to change.
As Will and Mi-Su attend a star party with an unexpected little sister, Will ends up being separated from everybody. While looking for Tabby, he discovers Mi-Su and BT kissing. Immediately expecting this to change everything, Will starts wondering how it makes him feel about Mi-Su.
Will is in a constant struggle to control his world around him and the people in it. However, as the story unfold he realizes that living in the now is infinitely more important that worrying about the future. Although I do like Jerry Spinelli as an other I found Will hard to relate to. I spent most of the book wanting to smack him on the back of the head. So it’s a definite okay for me.
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