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386 pp.
| HarperTeen |
May, 2016 |
TradeISBN 978-0-06-231367-6$17.99
(2)
YA
Sixteen-year-old Willa is less than psyched to be starting boarding school, and she decides she's going to kill herself. Then she meets Remy, Pembroke Prep's enigmatic, charismatic It Girl, and their friendship gives Willa a purpose in life. Portes excels at the first-person, precociously self-aware, snarky teenage-girl voice. The book's humor is dark and the social commentary biting.