Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis, a white girl living on the margins, thinks she has little reason to live: her father drowned himself her bereft and abusive mother kicked her out her best friend, Ellis, is nearly brain dead after cutting too deeply and she's gone through unspeakable experiences living on the street. Some of its predecessors in the series have had a higher hilarity quotient but this is actively and acutely-and disarmingly-a boy in a bind.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. What does come across throughout are the horrors of being a short twelve waiting to "shoot up," of having a mother whose pursuit of dust leaves no room for privacy, of plunging into a first evening party with girls. Peter is hurt, resentful, outraged that she is big and clumsy and afraid of parties, that he was thinking of his feelings (of being a hero) rather than of her feelings doesn't get across to him until after a summer that sees a change in Veronica too.
Peter, fighting his family up to the last minute, finally gains permission to invite Veronica to his bar mitzvah-and then she doesn't come. And if I do, may I fall down dead!" "And I swear that if Peter Wedemeyer dies first, I'll remember him and make everybody else remember him or may I be struck down dead!" The pledge in the cemetery, Veronica deadly serious, Peter humoring her, is the apotheosis of their accord life is harsher.
Peter's mother disapproves of Veronica because she's older and a girl and not Jewish, Veronica's mother disapproves of Peter because he is Jewish, but Peter and Veronica are friends-forever: "I swear to God that I'll never forget Veronica Ganz if she dies.
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