Best friends Rae and Vic want out of their Kentucky town. They're going to room together in college and never look back. Rae lives in a trailer with her alcoholic mother and codependent father. She works at the town's one diner to buy gas for her car and save for college. Vic is newish to the town and stands out because of her brown skin. Both girls have secrets that come out as they explore different colleges around the state. 

It's a lovely friendship book, and there's also heterosexual romance (apparently author Dahlia Adler hadn't come out in print yet).