How Julia copes with her best friend's pregnancy and her new stepmother and her crush and everything else life throws at her during her senior year. Nicely done, with plenty of allusions to classic literature and some warmly believable characters. The crazy/religious/evil parents were, I sincerely h...
āIām not going to lie to you.ā What an opening line. In fact, every chapter of this book has a first line from classic literature. Julia, the protagonist, connects the first line from literature to her current situation. In this frame story, Julia, a high school teenager, ends up concocting this sch...