“They’re both smart, quick to learn. But their lives have been so expansive, their traumas so adult. They are young women and now they’re meant to clip themselves into a three-ring binder each day. They’re meant to hang their jackets in lockers and flirt with boys in the hallways. They’re supposed to regress into shapes that were never familiar to them.”

“They’re both smart, quick to learn. But their lives have been so expansive, their traumas so adult. They are young women and now they’re meant to clip themselves into a three-ring binder each day. They’re meant to hang their jackets in lockers and flirt with boys in the hallways. They’re supposed to regress into shapes that were never familiar to them.”

— Jeanine Cummins