Scarlett urges Jessie via text to accept SN’s offer of guidance, so Jessie sends him an email with a few questions. He tells her that he will do the entire project himself, and that she should not worry because he will get them an A. Eliot, and Ethan ends up asking Jessie to partner with him. Pollack, assigns the class a partner project about The Waste Land by T.S.

She goes outside and begins eating alone, texting her friend in Chicago, Scarlett, about how different the girls in LA are to those in Chicago. Ethan is reading a book by Jean-Paul Sartre and ignoring the advances of a group of girls who try to invite him to a party. Two weeks later, in the present, Jessie encounters a boy named Ethan while trying to find a place to eat. She recalls the first day of school again to try to discern SN’s identity, but resigns herself to the fact that it could be any of her classmates. Jessie initially declines, resolving to fend for herself. Jessie receives an anonymous email from Somebody Nobody, or SN, offering to guide her through the travails of going to a new school in a different city. The novel begins 733 days after Jessie’s mom died. The novel takes place in the first-person perspective, with Jessie as the protagonist and narrator. First Ember Edition, 2017.īuxbaum’s novel is divided into 34 chapters of varying lengths, mostly in chronological order, which detail Jessie Holmes’s first few months at Wood Valley High School, a private school in the San Fernando Valley. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Buxbaum, Julie.

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