Deviant behavior

24. Luckiest Girl Alive – Jessica Knoll

I think that if you grew up in the same area as this character, the Mainline area of Pennsylvania, perhaps this was more relatable. Or maybe the narrator’s goals and trajectory post-high school were relatable. Or if I cared about the world of women’s magazines and having expensive things that aren’t pop culture related it would’ve been more interesting to read this. Even as someone who has suffered more than one kind of trauma and was in high school during the Columbine shooting, I couldn’t find anything to value in this depiction of responding to the multiple traumatic events of the narrator’s life. It read like the writer was using the narrator’s trauma like it gives the narrator a reason to be such an insufferable shit and that’s lazy af, as the kids probably no longer say. And the insufferable shit dimension was the only one TifAni’s got.

I understand where the narrator is supposed to be coming from, but her goals were so reprehensible and her significant lack of redeeming qualities in adulthood just made it harder to find anything worthwhile in the story.

As you can see here, Pickles was very concerned about fashion and what she gnawed on.