The New York Times bestseller everyone is talking about.
If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling.
Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her
junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly
applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam
has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts
and worries that she can't turn off.
Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a
struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic
at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet
Sam knows she'd be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most
popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her
new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right
up there with Sam's weekly visits to her psychiatrist.
Caroline introduces Sam to Poet's Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit
group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is
drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent
for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly,
she begins to feel more "normal" than she ever has as part of the
popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity
and all she holds dear.