Chapter 1 Summary

Define Normal is the story of two girls' friendship and their respective journeys of recovering their relationships with their mothers. Antonia and Jazz are paired up as part of a peer counseling program. From the start, both girls dislike each other on the basis of their appearance. Only after they get to know each other do they realize that they have more in common than they realized. As they continue to shatter each other's definitions of what they think normal is or should be, they realize that their definitions of normal are not what they had originally thought.

Antonia Dillon meets Jazz Luther for the first time in a peer counseling session. She feels a sense of dread as the punky Jazz walks in. Following along with a checklist of questions Dr. Dileo gave her to ask, Antonia attempts to make progress with...