Girls Like Me

About this book

Sixteen-year-old queer-identified Banjo Logan wakes up groggy in a juvenile mental ward. She realizes that the clueless therapist and shiny psychiatrist cant help her come to terms with her genderqueer boy/girlfriends suicide much less help her decide what to do with the fetus thats growing inside her or answers the question of why she cuts. Shes befriended by two fellow patientsa strange and slightly manic queer girl and a shy gay boy disowned by his born-again Christian parents. Girls Like Me is the a powerful coming of age story of a pregnant gay teenager who realizes that friends may make the best medicine.