“In Kantor's debut novel, an awkward, self-deprecating high school senior, Jan Miller—named after artist Jan van Eyck (pronounced ‘Yahn’)—is obsessed with the size of her bottom, can't think of what to write in her college application essays and is unsure if Josh, her crush who recently moved from Seattle to New York City, has a girlfriend back home. In contrast, her confident best friend, Rebecca, was just named one of New York's ‘It Girls’ by Chic magazine, gets accepted to Brown and is secretly dating a law student who worked at her dad's firm (and who thinks she's much older). Readers will easily identify with Jan, who attracts the wrong boys, occasionally gets tongue-tied around Josh, and has an active fantasy life (imaginary romantic scenes, in which Josh admits his love, dot the narrative). But Jan's sense of humor, and her rapport with both Josh and Rebecca, will keep the pages turning. Plus, the novel offers a motivating message to girls about feeling free to make the first move.”

Publishers Weekly