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What would you do with one day left to live?

In an alternate present, a company named Death-Cast


calls Deckers—people who will die within the coming
day—to inform them of their impending deaths,
though not how they will happen. The End Day call
comes for two teenagers living in New York City:
Puerto Rican Mateo and bisexual Cuban-American
foster kid Rufus. Rufus needs company after a violent
act puts cops on his tail and lands his friends in jail;
Mateo wants someone to push him past his comfort
zone after a lifetime of playing it safe. The two meet
through Last Friend, an app that connects lonely
Deckers (one of many ways in which Death-Cast
influences social media). Mateo and Rufus set out to
seize the day together in their final hours, during
which their deepening friendship blossoms into
something more. Present-tense chapters, short and
time-stamped, primarily feature the protagonists’
distinctive first-person narrations. Fleeting third-
person chapters give windows into the lives of other
characters they encounter, underscoring how even a
tiny action can change the course of someone else’s
life.

This book teaches us how important every moment of


our lives is and how we should be happy and thankful
for everybody that is in our that’s with us and that
wants to help. It’s a life lesson hat personally I think
everybody has something to learn from.

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