The New York Times bestselling BookTok sensation deeply moving novel of friendship first
love mental health and belonging perfect for fans of Girl in Pieces and The Summer of
Broken Rules. 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.
