However, it did really pick up at the end for a super creepy campfire read, as long as you cut out most of it. Although I was much different as a teen than the girls portrayed in this novel, Kasischke brings in many familiar adolescent details--emotions, group and individual behaviors--things I haven't thought about in years. For 230 pages, I was surprised at how long the book actually felt, especially as there was an entire chapter dedicated to explaining why Kristy found policemen friendly. If they were even remotely likable people, I suppose at one point I might have started feeling bad for them, especially the sulky Kristi who seemed fit for a straight jacket pretty early on, but that never was the case here so it kept the fun simple for me.

A note, added years later: Kasischke's writing is always haunting - in the memorable sense, not the supernatural sense. I am a mother to an eighteen-year-old daughter and I was compelled to read this novel to the end in just two sittings. While at the gas station, the beautiful driver - Kristy Sweetland, the narrator of the tale - attracts the unwanted attention of two boys. One of my favorite chapters in the book is when the narrator recounts when a stalker an unrequited suitor showers her with ridiculous gifts and professes his love for her (and claims he knows she loves him back). If books have not been paid for online then they will be kept aside for a maximum of three (3) work days only.Her novel The Life Before Her Eyes is the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Vadim Perelman, and starring Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood. She is also currently a Professor of English Language and of the Residential College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Behind us, a girl from camp whose name was also Kristi (although hers ended in an i), was holding onto her red hair, making noises.

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AND it was twist-y and Eww and not what I was expecting (congrats for having me not guess What Was Going To Happen). Boy Heaven" is one of the most expertly crafted stories I've read in a while; every image means something, every character feels real, every plot line is explored fully. When Kristy, Desiree and another girl sneak out of camp to go cruising, Kristy gives two boys an accidental smile which sets off an unexpected chain of events. If you could do it and make it look sincere – be nice to the ugly girls, smile at the loser and geeks, talk to them in the cafeteria as if they were normal people, invite a few of them to your parties even though your friends would stick their fingers down their throats and pretend to gag when you read the invitation list – the rewards were endless.Once back at camp, the girls laugh off the incident and are proud of themselves for getting rid of the guys.