Trivia / Everything, Everything

• Actor-Shared Background: Amandla Stenberg and Madeline are both half-black biracial people. However, Madeline is half-Asian while Stenberg is half-white.
• Write What You Know:
  • Madeline being half-black, half-Asian (and, subsequently, her parents having been a black-Asian interracial couple) originated from the fact that the author is in a black-Asian relationship herself with biracial children.
  • The novel was inspired by the birth of the author's daughter, and the protective and maternal feelings that followed, which made the author wonder how far she'd be willing to go to protect her child, under the right circumstances.