What a strange book. On the surface it's about two high school friends, girls, who are "hipster", bitchy, snarky little observers of the human condition. They travel around their small town saying mean things about nearly everyone, and have this strange almost marriage-like relationship. But there's more going on, some kind of social commentary on youth and the disillusionment of smart people living in dull places. There is a lot to commiserate with, but at the same time you pity the characters because they seem to be incapable about being genuine. Then they'll surprise you with touches of emotion towards one another that seem to flip the story on its head.

Oddly, the movie version of this, which I saw before I read the book, is vastly different. Maybe not worse, and maybe thematically and stylistically similar, but it attaches greater importance to at least one relatively minor character in the book.