Story of a Girl Themes

Sadly it's a familiar tale: boy wants to have sex, boy gets girl drunk or high, girl gives in. Too many girls have stories about losing their virginity under these circumstances, and Deanna in Stor...

It's safe to say home's not Deanna's favorite place in Story of a Girl. Her dad's barely spoken to her since the Tommy incident, her mom's a false-happiness machine, and her brother's raising her n...

In Story of a Girl, Deanna's learning a lesson that so many girls learn the hard way: there's a big difference between love and sex. Tommy tells her lots of flattering things, like that she's prett...

Any book that opens with the line, "I was thirteen when my dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy's Buick," may seem like it's going to be all sexy times, but don't think you're about...

Quick, think of the happiest TV family ever. The Brady Bunch? The Huxtables? Some Disney Channel people? Okay, now think of the exact opposite, and it will probably look something like the Lambert...

San Francisco: so close, and yet so far away. Even though the big city is half an hour away from Pacifica, it might as well be another world, at least from Deanna's POV in Story of a Girl. High sch...

Joan Jett may not have given a damn about her bad reputation, but Deanna definitely does in Story of a Girl. Why? Because it's totally undeserved. Sure she fooled around with an older boy when she...

Nothing says wrong side of the tracks quite like your neighbors having yards full of non-working cars. That's the landscape of Deanna's life in Story of a Girl, and it's pretty bleak. If her parent...