The shelving of this book, whether on the virtual, digital bookstore shelves or the ever-decreasing lengths of wooden shelves, puts this book into a box that limits it in ways it doesn't deserve.

Good stories help you see. They help you see things in yourself. They let you see things in your friends and family and the society and world around you. That's true regardless of the age of the characters or the subject matter.

Truth cuts through the categories to connect to you where you are. That's what this book does. It's a work of fiction that tells truths.

I'm older than the audience the marketing folks at the publisher undoubtedly intended it. I'm much older than the main characters in this book. I'm older than the average reader of John Green's books. Hell, I'm older than the author himself.

But, as I listened to this book, driving home from having visited my parents, as their health gradually fails, I couldn't help but feel the resonance this book strikes.

Read it.