The book is set in an upper-middle class neighborhood in
Connecticut. In Chapter 1, about five pages in, there is a passage that describes
Janey's school and the attitude of her friends. The passage depicts a nice, pleasantly
constructed school, and the students act like regular high school students who complain
about the way the space in the school is alotted, but enjoy being together in it
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"Peter,
Adair, Sarah-Charlotte, Jason, Katrina, and Janie went in a mob down the wide stairs,
through the wide halls, and into the far-too-small cafeteria. The kids complained about
the architecture of the school (all that space dedicated to passing periods and hardly
any to lunch). but they loved being crammed in, fliching each other's potato chips,
telling secrets they wanted everybody to overhear...sending the people on the outside of
the crush to get you a second
milk."
Janie and her friends
live in a small town where everyone knows everyone, as opposed to in a large city. About
two pages further in Chapter 1 there is a quote that
reads,
"Reeve...had always lived in this town, always
gone to this school. I want to live in a city, he'd said last night, and be
anonymous."
The town in which
Janie and her friends live is close to the beach. About five pages into Chapter 2, there
is a passage that describes the nearby shoreline and the Scenic Overlook frequented by
the teenagers -
"Reeve turned the Jeep into the
Scenic Overlook...to the east stretched the ocean, and to the west, barely protected by
thin spits of sand and mud, was the harbor where the wind jostled boats against the
wharves. The boatyard was filled with marina employees taking boats out of the water for
the winter storage."
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