The first page of the novel hooks me with what type of person Eleanor is. She is an angry teenager who does not make the right decisions and anything anyone tells her to do or she needs to do, she does the opposite. All she and her boyfriend, Lam, want to do is drink, get high, and have sex. Sound like anyone you know?
Eleanor thinks she cons her's and Lam's parents into letting them marry so that they can raise the child together, but realizes that their parents let them marry just so that they will fail. Lam's parents own and run a "fat camp" in Maine, where Lam and Eleanor have to work to help support themselves and their future child. I would not want to live the way they live. Both Eleanor and Lam find out marriage is not what they thought it would be and throwing a pregnancy in the middle and it really isn't as fun as they thought it would be.
Nolan makes the characters realistic for me because I have had these types of students sitting in my classroom each year. I was angry with Eleanor at the beginning of the novel but begin to feel sympathy for her at the end. Lam is a total JERK, and girls, if you meet a guy like him.....RUN AWAY!
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