The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Patrick Ness
Mikey, his sister Mel, and their friends Henna and Jared are nearing high-school graduation while facing uncertain futures and complicated family pressures. Mel has anorexia, while Mikey experiences severe anxiety and OCD; their mother wants the family to present a more ambitious public image. Henna may be taken to the Central African Republic for missionary work, and Jared worries about leaving his single-parent father. Meanwhile, the otherworldly is real: as local indie kids disappear, the cause is not ordinary but alien.
This book appears on 2 reading lists across 1 edition from 2 organizations.
