Others See Us focuses mostly on three generations of a single family who have come together for an annual reunion. While the family appears relatively normal on the surface, it is filled with quirky, problem-filled individuals. The most normal is the protagonist, Jared, a sixteen-year-old boy who wants to be a writer and who is infatuated with his cousin, Annelise. One of Jared's most well-known characteristics is that he cannot lie, a virtue which gets him in trouble when he subsequently develops the ability to see into the minds of those around him. While he is obsessed with Annelise, he has no 3796 Others See Us other secrets. Even when his grandmother steals his journal, he is concerned only with hiding his comments about his cousin; he has written little that would really be offensive to anyone else because he is generally open with others...