I was curious about all the rave reviews this was getting and started reading the Kindle preview... but couldn't get past the awkward feeling that I was back in an East Coast Ivy League grad student writing seminar... 
 I swear, there's one of these manuscripts in every workshop I've ever attended, and it's usually the product of precocious talent, privileged upper-class angst, and minimal real-world life experience. Maybe I'm being prematurely judge-y, but I guess I just don't get what made this particular instantiation of the theme into some big overnight sensation.