Publishers WeeklySukie Jamieson, the vain yet glaringly insecure teenage protagonist of Ephron's (Frannie in Pieces) second YA novel, has a lot on her mind. Is her hair—"worthy of worship"—in its proper place? Does the slope of her nose accentuate or detract from her almost-perfect profile? Will star quarterback Bobo, who tells her, "I really like your body-fat ratio," ever ask her out? Matters get only slightly less trivial when her faux-glam mother returns from an extended stay at the spa with a facelift (but even less self-esteem), and her father gets beat up by an unknown man. Ephron keeps the reason for the assault under wraps for quite a while, and the gravity of Sukie's parents' collapsing marriage is overshadowed by Sukie's complaints about her image and want of friends, and her mother's plastic surgery woes.
