Something like normal

Something like normal

2012 • 224 pages

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Average rating4.3

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When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up.


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we need more books like this
happy i'll be reading personal effects soon

July 19, 2012
June 7, 2012

I cried so much at this. Travis has such a strong voice here and it felt like a really realistic portrayal of a 19-year-old boy with PTSD. (Not that I have ever personally been a 19-year-old boy with PTSD.) But also: very funny tone in places, and a great, messy family situation.

November 1, 2015