In middle school, nothing is more important than friendship.
When Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table with the group she has
dreamed of joining, she can hardly believe her luck. Everyone seems so
nice, so kind to one another. But all is not as it seems with her new
friends, and soon she's caught in a maelstrom of lies,
misunderstandings, accusations and counter-accusations, all happening
very publicly in the relentless, hyperconnected social media world from
which there is no escape.
Six eighth-graders, four girls and two boys, struggle to understand and
process their fractured glimples into one another's lives as they find
new ways to disconnect, but also to connect, in Rachel Vail's richest
and most searching book.