Six months have passed since sixteen-year-old Virginia Shreve decided to ignore the supposed "Fat Girl Code of Conduct" and make her relationship official with Froggy Welsh the Fourth. But as sophomore year comes to an end, she finds her life once again thrown into chaos--her relationship with Froggy is losing its spark, her mom just betrayed her to the meanest girl in school, her sister is coming home from the Peace Corps, and her feelings for her brother Byron remain . . . complicated ever since he got suspended from Columbia for date-rape.
Then the unthinkable happens--the police show up at their apartment and arrest Byron. As Virginia struggles to cope with everything, she meets Nate, a guy with his own baggage he doesn´t want to talk about. They make a pact to spend time together without sharing any drama. But just as Virginia is starting to enjoy herself around Nate and figure out what she wants, a terrible secret is revealed that could ruin everything.
Fifteen years later, this sequel to Carolyn Mackler´s highly acclaimed, Printz Honor-winning The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things drops readers seamlessly back into Virginia´s life and offers a compelling contemporary story of forgiveness and accepting that the beauty of life is in the imperfections.