Because I Had To

"... Don't miss this keenly observed, smart, funny, and well-crafted book!"
-Lyric Winik, NYT Award Winning Writer

Jess Porter spent her childhood bouncing from therapist to therapist and prescription to prescription. An outcast at school and a misfit at home, the only solace she ever found was in her relationship with her dad, Tom. Now he's dead. Feeling rejected by her adopted mom and her biological twin sister, Jess runs off to South Florida. But she can't outrun her old life. Watching the...