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Fifteen-year-old Mick finds evidence that his stepmother is having an affair and begins to investigate. His own life is equally complicated: he likes a classmate, but she's enamored of a Mormon missionary. Meanwhile, a flirtatious college student seems to be pursuing Mick. Though the plot is diffuse and the prose detached, the novel skillfully examines a number of knotty romantic entanglements.