Sophie Gee

But now I know.

I wanted to take out people's time making jokes, to tease the dean in front of the entire school, to call him by a nickname.

What I wanted was to be a cocky high school boy so fucking sure of my place in the world.

And so I think that although the kind of arc of this chapter is Conquita goes up and Lee goes down in our estimation and Conquita kills Lee, we've got this undercurrent of Lee's, the particular flavor of Lee's anxiety.

She's a woman.

She's from a less privileged background.

She doesn't belong to this sort of patriarchal world.

that she's seeing in front of her and she knows that it's kind of going to be a problem, it's going to hold her back.

I should say, parenthetically, that my American friends who are listening to this episode, we all know the real life Adam Rabinowitz, the man whose penis made it onto page 32 of PrEP.

So I'm just doing a quick shout out.

The guy with the plaster of Paris penis, if you're listening to this episode, we know who you are.

Oh, boy.

You so fit into the world, Jonti.

Yeah.

You're going to get really itchy really fast.

OK, so we're back.

Before we bog down in the next sections of the novel, I just want to do a quick shout out to some of the great details in this book.

So many markers of the late 80s and 90s.

the phasing out of cassettes tapes, the phasing in of CDs, some of Madonna's greatest hits, the tortoiseshell headband as one of the key status markers of people who truly belong to the preppy elite.

A minor detail, but one that I really want to call attention to, are those posh chocolates that proliferated