"All junk does. Junkies love sweets," Dinky said authoritatively. "I never met a junkie who didn't verge on bulbous acne."
"How can you eat and talk about bulbous acne?" Tucker said.
"I'm not finicky," Dinky answered.
Many things change in a teenage boy's life when he meets the overweight girl who answers his ad for the cat he must give away.
Synopsis
"Does heroin give you pimples?" Tucker asked.
"All junk does. Junkies love sweets," Dinky said authoritatively. "I never met a junkie who didn't verge on bulbous acne."
"How can you eat and talk about bulbous acne?" Tucker said.
"I'm not finicky," Dinky answered.
New York Times
A brilliantly funny book—full of wit and wisdom and an astonishing immediacy that comes from spare, honest writing.
About the Author, M. E. Kerr
M. E. Kerr is a winner of the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement and the ALAN award from the National Council of Teachers of English. Ms. Kerr lives in East Hampton on New York's Long Island.
Dinky Hocker doesn't actually shoot smack; her rebellious painting of the title phrase is a gesture of despair. The characters ring true, every one; the dialogue has vitality and humor; the book has an integrity of conception that is a solid base for the sophistication of its wit and humor. —Book World
New York Times
A brilliantly funny book—full of wit and wisdom and an astonishing immediacy that comes from spare, honest writing.
New York Times
This is a brilliantly funny book that will make you cry. It is full of wit and wisdom and an astonishing immediacy that comes from spare, honest writing. Many writers try to characterize the peculiar poignancy and the terrible hilarity of adolescence. Few succeed as well as M. E. Kerr in this timely, compelling and entertaining novel.
