Come Over Come Over

Barry deftly portrays the capricious nature of teen friendships adolescent peerpressure and the kill or be killed nature of a middle schools social scene in her signature style. In an authentic teen voice full of diffidence and melodrama the bespectacled and freckled Maybonne relates all of lifes indignities on equal measure. Heartbreaking stories of a broken home child molestation an alcoholic absentee father and a bitter mom emerge between strips about home ec class summer vacation and babysitting illustrating Barrys peerless ability to make the reader both cry and laugh.