15 year old Ruby is bitter and angry - her mother died, she has to go live with her mega movie-star father in Los Angeles (who I've never even met / because he's such a scumbag / that he divorced my mother / before I was even born) and she is torn away from her boyfriend Ray, her best friend Lizzie, and her beloved Aunt Ruby, who are all left behind in Boston, and all of whom betray her in some fashion during the course of the novel. Ruby's first few months in LA are explored in a series of one to two page free style poems - some told as emails to her friends and her dead mother (which she sends and then gets back with a "fatal error" message), others as ruminations on her life, and others as straight narration of her daily life. Even though she is bitter and angry, she is also very sensitive...