The Kidney Hypothetical or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days

Reviewed by: Sally Holt - Raymond, Maine, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: July 19, 2015

Review

Higgs Bison Bing has a perfect high school career and appears to have it all. He is handsome, academically successful, and admired by all or so he thinks and has been dating the most beautiful girl in school until the day that she asks him if he would be willing to donate a kidney if she needed one and he declines. Over the next week after denying his girlfriend a kidney the whole school turns against him. That is not the only problem he has. Higgs's dad is a successful dentist who is cheating on his mom, his mother is severely depressed and his younger sister really needs him. The family is also preeling from the death a few years before of Higgs' highly revered brother Jeffrey who died while driving drunk. Along the way, Higgs realizes that he in not the most special person in the world. At the final school assembly as the valedictorian of the class, Higgs gives a speech and says "Don't spend all your time trying to be someone you're not, because in the end you've got to live with yourself, and you might not like who you meet."

Overall Book Score: very good