Description
(1st Book of How-To Series) "How to Not End Up Dead" isn't a story. It's a survival manual written by someone who didn't survive. Seventeen-year-old Mallory Pierce has the grades, the friends, the smile, and the uniform. She spikes volleyballs, makes people laugh, and can recite the symptoms of six different disorders better than any textbook. What no one sees is the girl who hasn't slept in three days, who hides panic attacks in gas station bathrooms, who taught herself how to cry without smudging mascara. Mallory has been dying since she was seven years old. Since the day someone stole her voice and left her with a body she never asked for. But she learned how to wear normal like a second skin-how to flirt, perform, apologize, disappear, and smile like she means it. Her life is a delicate balancing act between appearances and collapse, packed into thirty chapters of dark humor, brutal honesty, and moments so quiet they could shatter you. Told like a how-to guide from the mind of a girl unraveling, How to Not End Up Dead is not about healing. It's not about recovery. It's a mirror held up to every person who's ever screamed behind their teeth and wondered if anyone could hear them. Mallory Pierce will be heard. Even if it's only after she's gone.
How to Not Believe Everything You Think
