Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses is a funny heartfelt book with a phenomenal premise.
New York TimesTeen Wolf meets Emergency Contact in this sharply observed hilarious and
heartwarming debut young adult novel about friendship chronic illness and . . . werewolves.
Priya worked hard to pursue her premed dreams at Stanford but the fallout from undiagnosed
Lyme disease sends her back to her childhood home in New Jersey during her sophomore year and
leaves her wondering if she ll ever be able to return to the way things were. Thankfully she
has her online pen pal Brigid and the rest of the members of oof ouch my bones a virtual
support group that meets on Discord to crack jokes and vent about their own chronic illnesses.
When Brigid suddenly goes offline Priya does something out of character: she steals the family
car and drives to Pennsylvania to check on Brigid. Priya isn t sure what to expect but it isn
t the horrifying creature that's shut in the basement. With Brigid nowhere to be found Priya
begins to puzzle together an impossible but obvious truth: the creature might be a werewolf and
the werewolf might be Brigid. As Brigid's unique condition worsens their friendship will be
deepened and challenged in unexpected ways forcing them to reckon with their own ideas of what
it means to be normal.
