content: This book started well, but after awhile it became a chore to finish. The main character of this book doesn't grow, and she has nothing interesting to say. She doesn't have as much money as most of her classmates, but it's hard to see where that really gets in her way. She has a miserable sexual relationship that just kind of goes on and on. So what. The book finally ends and I just didn't care.There were some good sections, such as the parents visiting day sequence when the main character was so (unjustifiably) embarrassed by her parents that her father decided to leave early. I also found the aborted relationship between the main character and the townie to be fairly interesting. Yeah, both of these sections were overdone, but there was a ring of truth to them. Most of the rest of the book was an attempt to make us feel sorry for a character that was totally unremarkable and unlikeable.