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402 pp.
| St. Martin's/Wednesday
| October, 2017
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TradeISBN 978-1-250-11976-6$18.99
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EbookISBN 978-1-250-11977-3
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YA
College freshman Flora Goldwasser compiles journal entries, magazine clippings, blogs, and other documents to help explain why, at age sixteen, she left Manhattan for "an alternative boarding school" in upstate New York to impress her older male history tutor. Throughout the narrative, smart, snarky Flora perceptively explores issues of class, gender, sexuality, fashion, art, and more. The effect is kitchen-sink-y but entertaining.