The novel is told primarily from Vera’s point of view, with wry interjections from her father, the Pagoda (a folly outside town) and even the dead Charlie. Charlie had got involved with the ‘Detentionheads’ at school, and with Jenny Flick, in particular, who told lies about Vera so as to make Charlie break with his friend. At the beginning of the novel, Vera explains that she had been betrayed by her best friend, Charlie Kahn, who had died some months earlier. Her mother left her daughter and husband when Vera was twelve, and as the story unfolds, the reader learns more about the family’s history and actions, which in turn explain the relationship between Vera and her father. Vera Dietz is eighteen, a high school senior living in a small town in Pennsylvania. I wouldn’t have got this book were it not for Erin’s recommendation at Aelia Reads: I pass on my own recommendation, because King’s novel is excellent.
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