As the girl who was always picked last at home, the loud obnoxious one around her friends, Ashleigh Underwood has a very real idea of what it is like to be abnormal. If the drama in her life didn't make that clear enough, all she had to do was look around to the exasperated looks of her friends to know that her life was exhausting. Her brother with a disability, her mom, and her terminal illness were just the headlines of a life filled with more problems than solutions. Ashleigh was determined to change that. She was constantly striving to obtain normal. If she could just have a life that looked more like her friends or those of the girls on TV, she would have figured it out. Maybe then, she wouldn't be the exhausting one in the group. In Chasing Normal, Ashleigh goes through her chase and what happened when she finally got to the finish line.