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Finding Normal

by Jen Doktorski

A road trip toward recovery

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A road trip toward recovery

Gemma’s plan to visit all five U.S. towns named Normal becomes a shared journey with Lucas, a wrestler also living with an eating disorder. Their rule against mentioning food frames the trip around the strain of avoiding a subject central to their lives. As the journey grows more dangerous, the story connects recovery with the friendship and romantic bond taking shape between them. The novel brings eating disorders and body image into a young adult road-trip premise, with travel serving as the setting for two teens confronting risk and the possibility of change.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in fiction about eating disorders and body image
  • Readers drawn to young adult stories combining road trips, friendship, and romance

Themes

Eating disorders and body imageRecoveryFriendship and romanceRisk and change

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Book overview

There are five towns in the U.S. named " Normal" and seventeen-year-old Gemma Leonardo plans on visiting every one of them. Right after she escapes Children's Hospital in Harrisburg, where she's being treated for anorexia. Enter Lucas Polizzi, a high school wrestler with bulimia and, more importantly to Gemma, a getaway car. Sick of being told they're sick, Gemma and Lucas team up for a themed road trip to " the Normals" on one condition-- they can't mention food, ever. But as each passing mile puts their lives at greater risk, they soon realize it is their growing love and friendship, not a place on a map, that will put them on the path to recovery.
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