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**Alexa Tsoulis-Reay’s *Finding Normal* is an author’s up close tour of people who are using the Internet to challenge the boundaries of what’s taboo and what it means to be normal.** Based on a popular series of candid interviews conducted for New York magazine’s human science column—”What It’s Like”— *Finding Normal* explores the ways that real people are using the Internet to find community, forge connections, and create identity in ways that challenge a variety of accepted sexual norms. Ranging from the atypical to the shocking, each story in *Finding Normal* intimately immerses the reader in the world of a person who is grappling with a unique set of circumstances relating to sexuality. *Finding Normal* at once celebrates the power of our current media moment for helping people rewrite the script for their lives and offers a warning about the danger of that seemingly limitless freedom to find yourself. *Finding Normal* shows the enduring power of the search for belonging—for humans and society. Like happiness or life purpose, finding normal is perhaps the definitive human struggle.