He’s into his book obsession and spending time with him, and they even have nicknames for each other. When they are together, Thomas makes Aaron feel like he’s totally normal. Aaron has always considered himself a little weird or difficult to make happy, but it all feels so easy to be happy when he is with Thomas. Then a unique person called Thomas comes into his life. Maybe his brother and his exhausted mother aren’t necessarily support systems, but he has his girlfriend. However, with the support of his girlfriend standing by his side, Aaron feels like he could go through with it. So even though he is pretty distrustful, Aaron still thinks about doing the procedure.Īaron doesn’t know if he should go through with the procedure. He remembers how all of his friends just seem to shrug him off. Aaron remembers growing up poor, and he remembers how his dad committed suicide in the apartment that they lived in. And even if they do, they’re not going to be offering them up to everyone to try. Things like this don’t show up in places like the projects if they really do work. Aaron Soto hears about the procedure when it is announced and he immediately sees the procedure as both potentially helpful and also something that is definitely too good to be true– and you know what they say about that: if things are too good to be true, then they most likely probable are too good to be true.Įven if this procedure were some amazing cure, Aaron is suspicious. It’s a memory alteration procedure that is top of the line and newly developed courtesy of the Leteo Institute.

But then something new is announced and it has the potential to change everything for him. He struggles with feeling happy on a regular basis and deep down thinks that being happy shouldn’t be as difficult as it is.

In his first novel, More Happy Than Not, main character Aaron Soto lives in the Bronx. He is the author of History Is All You Left Me and They Both Die at the End in addition to collaborating with fellow author Becky Albertalli on What If It’s Us. He currently lives in New York City and his debut novel is titled More Happy Than Not. He eventually shifted into working in children’s publishing at a literary development company.Īdam Silvera has also worked on a creative writing website for teens as well as a book reviewer of novels in the young adult genre as well as children’s books. Before he worked in publishing and wrote, he was a bookseller. He describes himself as being tall for ‘no reason’. He was born and grew up in the Bronx, New York.

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