Gretchen Yee is a fifteen-year-old comic book fan at a Manhattan high school for the arts, where she feels invisible and spends her days wondering what boys really say about girls when no one is around. Then she gets her wish in the most Kafkaesque way possible: she wakes up one morning transformed into a fly on the wall, free to drift into the boys' locker room and watch everything. What she sees about crushes, cruelty and the gap between public and private selves forces her to reconsider her friends, her family and her own habit of staying on the sidelines of her life.
Teens who like their realism with a surreal twist will find a funny, awkward narrator here. It also suits anyone who has ever wished to overhear what other people truly think, and wondered whether the answer would be comforting or crushing.
Practical and clear-cut; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Curious Generalist. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
