Meet the Cast
Julie "Jules" Jacobson
Jules is… complex. She's an outsider, someone who idealizes people who maybe shouldn't be idealized, and is really, well, unlikable sometimes. The whole book revolves around her, though, so the b...
Ethan Figman
Jules might be the protagonist, but Ethan is the brains of the outfit. He's the one with the most talent, the most success, and the most ugliness. We're not being haters—this book make a huge dea...
Ash Wolf
Ash is the girl everybody loves, especially the random guys at camp that never actually speak to her. The book itself sometimes seems obsessed with her beauty and sensitive talent, and the people i...
Jonah Bay
Who on earth is Jonah Bay? If we're asking that when we have access to his internal thoughts and stuff, can you imagine how frustrating it must be for his friends? Jonah is totally secretive and my...
Goodman Wolf
We're just going to say it: Goodman is a giant jerk. We know Jules is all googly-eyed over him for half the book, but it's pretty obvious that the narrator thinks she's an idiot for it (and so do s...
Dennis Jacobson-Boyd
Pick one word to describe Dennis. Ready? Go. If you picked solid, well, you might be Meg Wolitzer. Dennis is "regular," as Isadora calls him, but we don't really find out how much until later in th...
Cathy Kiplinger
Cathy's a bit of an oddball here because it's hard to tell what she's like without the bias of the characters coming through. Cathy very rarely gets to speak her mind and we don't really know what...
Minor Characters
Manny and Edie WunderlichThe Wunderlichs are "two aging Socialists" (1.12) that run the Spirit-in-the-Woods art camp each summer. They're more interesting than your average camp counselors, thoughâ...