Teenage dirtbag and yearbook editor.
Headstrong mechanic and bookish nerd.
Tropes that work in books, but never in real life.
There's fate. Destiny. Reading, seeing, believing the signs, the songs, the stars.
And then there's reality.
In Yes. Every Single Day., two teenagers fall in love the summer before senior year and it's the beginning of everything that's gonna matter. Nothing will ever be the same again.
Over three vignettes the couple grapples with endless miles across the South Dakota prairie and the constant drum in their hearts: what do they owe each other vs. what do they owe themselves?
As our narrator considers, over a decade, in a dozen bedrooms, up and down I-29, and finally, in a dim, gritty motel room: what happens when you meet the person you're supposed to be with, but neither fate, or time, agrees?