This is not a coming-of-age, high school drama, although on the surface it may appear quite the contrary. It is not a love story, no matter how much the author wishes it could be. While this story takes place in 1985 or 1986 (no one knows, not even the author), this is not the 80's of Flock of Seagulls or Prince and the Revolution, but that of a small, Midwestern town. A town built around a car factory, now gone. Grimy, suffocating, collapsing into poverty, the town is little more than an uneducated and prejudiced nothing. It is, for lack of a better description, forgettable. Although full of...