![]() Whip Logan, a famous actor, seems anxious to kindle a relationship however, when Ruby meets him, she thinks: "I don't know whether/ to ask him for his autograph,/ kick him in the balls,/ or run." The scene in California proves "deeply surreal": neighbor Cameron Diaz pops over, Brad Pitt grins at her in the local bookstore, and at the high school she enrolls in "Dream Interpretation Through the Ages." The only person Ruby feels comfortable with is her father's live-in "assistant/slash personal trainer," Max, whom Ruby believes is gay. to how she died"), Ruby leaves behind her best friend Lizzie and her boyfriend Ray, to live with a father she's never met. ![]() Following her mother's untimely death (in a poem called "Maybe You're Wondering About It," Ruby furiously says, "But that's just tough./ Because I'm not even going to go in ) signature free-verse style, opens as 15-year-old Ruby is en route from Boston to L.A. ![]() This winning portrayal of a teenage girl's loves and losses, written in Sones's ( What My Mother Doesn't Know ![]()
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