The story of her parents' divorce provides background for a description of how an ill-timed loss of virginity eroded not just her self-esteem but her ability to bond with friends

Having succeeded in becoming a cheerleader, she reflects on the question of what friends you leave behind in order to find other friends

A very funny read, a book you cant stop reading once you start

Spurred on by her parents and teachers, young Havrilesky feared calamity from all quarters: brain-eating maggots, nuclear annihilation, and psychotic hippies were all in a day's worries

Some readers will relate to HH, others won't, others partially

Her father is unfaithful and her mother leaves