Fighting For Normal

Nobody tells you a cancer diagnosis sounds like paperwork. Forms, terms, a calendar that used to have volleyball practice and now has chemotherapy. Sloane Deshazo is sixteen, a starting outside hitter, the person who holds everything together without being asked. She has a plan for junior year. Cancer is not it. Now she has to learn how to be sick without disappearing. How to let people show up for her, for once. What she stands to lose is not just her health. It is everything she has known.