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Sixteen-year-old Mira Durand has just been checked into the Residency Adolescent Treatment Centre for obsessive compulsive and comorbid disorders. Four years of being passed around different psych wards like a hot potato have only worsened her OCD and anorexia. Her brutal, religious compulsions, which she believes keep her mom safe, make her less of a clean freak and more of a freak freak. No wonder her only friend is her journal. At the Residency's Ward Two, Mira discovers that her shrink is a fellow fantasy nerd and that her wardmates have enough of their own high-risk behaviours to tolerate hers. The complex friendships she forms with them, including a first love, the slow trust she builds with her treatment team, and the outside and family visits she earns give her things to look forward to beyond the drudgery of her compulsions. But it takes visiting Gung-Gung, her dying maternal grandfather, for her to realize that to truly live, she must fight the cognitive distortions at the heart of her compulsions.

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"""Lea Taranto is a bright new spark on the YA scene."" --Susin Nielsen, author of No Fixed Address"

""Lea Taranto is a bright new spark on the YA scene."" --Susin Nielsen, author of No Fixed Address ""A brave, beautiful novel that will speak to teens everywhere who struggle with mental health challenges. Mira is a compelling character, privy to a darkness that adults don't always see but so many teens will immediately recognize. She's also creative, romantic, funny, and kind, the literary BFF you never knew you were waiting for. This book is a gem."" --Annabel Lyon, author of Consent

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Léa Taranto is a disabled Chinese Jewish Canadian writer who lives with OCD and comorbid disorders. An MFA graduate of the University of British Columbia, alumnus of Simon Fraser University Writer's Studio, and member of PRISM International's poetry board, she resides on traditional, unceded Halkomelem and Squamish territories in BC.

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