• The story follows these two girls, Enid and Rebecca, who are two best friends. It is set in the 1990s, and they have just graduated high school, so it is their last summer together.
• We see a lot of other characters enter, as well, since the two of them are sort of misfits in their suburban town, which is never named.
• Sidenote: The town was made vague in order for people to be able to relate it to any town they may be stuck in, and Daniel Clowes once had someone thank him for setting this story in “North Oak, Virginia”.
• They spend most of the book making fun of pop culture, as well as people in the town, such as the Satanic couple. They tease