but how embarrassing is the recap of a daylong he said/she said when the person you're talking to is shopping for virginity-losing lingerie?") will keep the pages turning. But Jan's sense of humor, and her rapport with both Josh (at one point Jan and Josh get into a comical conversation about words they hate, including "moist" and "slacks") and Rebecca ("I knew would be really supportive. It's easy to guess how Jan and Josh's will-they/won't-they relationship will ultimately turn out-and what will happen to Rebecca and her older man. Readers will easily identify with Jan, who attracts the wrong boys, occasionally gets tongue-tied around Josh, and has an active fantasy life (imaginary romantic scenes, in which Josh admits his love, dot the narrative). Magazine, gets accepted to Brown and is secretly dating a law student who worked at her dad's firm (and who thinks she's much older). In contrast, her confident best friend, Rebecca, was just named one of New York's "It Girls" by Chic Jan Miller-named after artist Jan van Eyck (pronounced "Yahn")-is obsessed with the size of her bottom, can't think of what to write in her college application essays and is unsure if Josh, her crush who recently moved from Seattle to New York City, has a girlfriend back home. Readers will find Kantor's debut novel about the misadventures of an awkward, self-deprecating high school senior predictable but fun.
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