My friends are all strange. Right now I'm living at Brookside, a place for people like me. I've met a kitty girl, a brooding beautiful boy, one who can't be touched, and others. My new friends. Strange people. People like me. I've always been different, but lately, more so. My hands sometimes don't seem to be attached to the rest of me. I cut up all of my clothes. I'm hot, so hot, all of the time. If I sleep, a wizard haunts every dream. I don't sleep. Sometimes I want to run, but where do you run to when you're trying to escape your own mind? I don't know if I'll ever be the same. I'm smart. I'm nice, sometimes. I just want to be normal(ish). But, right now, my friends are all strange... Like me. Dark, funny, snarky, seventeen-year-old Becca struggles to cope with mental illness in MY FRIENDS ARE ALL STRANGE, the gripping contemporary young adult companion novel to NORMALISH. Praise for My Friends Are All Strange This. Book. Was. Amazing! - Erucchii's Books & Recs * * Every once in awhile, I find a book that just knocks my socks off. My Friends Are All Strange did just that. This book was a shockingly accurate portrayal of mental disease. A definite must read and one of my top reads of 2016! - Que Sara Sera Book Blog * This book is totally not your run-of-the-mill YA novel. I loved getting to see all the characters in this novel deal with their emotions and hard times, battle their demons, if you will, and watch them ask questions, struggle, overcome, get broken down, feel angry, sad, happy, regretful, and deal with such raw struggles that we don't see very often in YA literature. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a real story about real struggles and the real emotions that come with them. - The Bookworm Central * I feel My Friends Are All Strange is a really important novel, not only for its intended young adult audience but for older readers too. - All In One Place Book Reviews * My Friends are all Strange by Margaret Lesh is one beautiful book. Becca's storytelling voice is strong and definitely definitely strange... I wanna reach out and hug her and tell her that "Girl, I feel you.You're not alone." - The Booklandia Reviews * My Friends Are All Strange is an incredible book. The world building was phenomenal. - The Crafty Engineer's Bookshelf * "The beginning of the story gave me the feeling of It's Kind of a Funny Story, and then TFIOS. I highly recommend this book for YA fans." - Fajriy Arunna, Goodreads California native Margaret Lesh lives in a canyon populated by herds of wild burro and coyote. The canyon is also populated with her creative, handsome husband, her feisty mother-in-law, her not-brave-at-all Border Collie, Echo, and sometimes her son (who is away at college. And she is not quite sure how that all happened so fast.) An avid reader as a girl, Margaret read anything and everything she could get her hands on. If she didn't really care for a book, she might only read it two or three times. She probably read The Hobbit the most, followed by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Outsiders, and everything by Judy Blume. She writes books to entertain young and not-so-young readers as well as herself. She believes tacos are magic.