Without the hardships, the goodness would never be revealed. This page turner explains the importance of union within a community, especially in times of extremes such as this.

Through a whirlwind of emotions and secret relationships, Wallach is able to prove that opposites do, indeed, attract. “We All Looked Up” paints a beautiful picture of breaking stereotypes and connecting individuals to feel whole.

In the midst of the epidemic, he continues his life as he’s always lived, laughing at the frantic individuals doing whatever they can before the meteor strikes. Slacker Andy is not on the same page as the rest since he does not give much thought to his future plans. The straight -A student worked her entire life to get into an Ivy League university only to have it ripped from her hands. The most dumbfounded of the four, Anita, did not understand why she’d worked so hard to only be destroyed. Carrying a “not–so-conservative” reputation, Eliza wonders why she ever cared for the opinions of others in the first place This news sends chaos within the town of Seattle while affecting everyone differently.įor Peter, the high-school superstar athlete, the news was devastating, imagining all the accomplishments he wouldn’t get the time to achieve.Įliza, however, did not accept the news as harshly as Peter. A meteor is hurtling toward Earth without intentions of stopping. Tommy Wallach’s fiction novel “We All Looked Up” is the epitome of the phrase “we’re all in this together.” As four high school students approach the end of the semester, they are struck with news, literally.

We all looked up