My Darling, My Hamburger; Paul Zindel

Holy shit, kids, this book is terrible! Even for an issue novel, I mean. Zindel seems to take great glee in creating characters simply so as many horrible things as possible can happen to them in the smallest number of pages.

I suddenly understand Kevin Shapiro so much better.

Okay, so there are these two popular kids going steady. They have shitty home lives, natch. They break up because she doesn't want to fuck, so as soon as they get back together after the girl is nearly raped by some asshole, guess what THEY do?

And, of course, since condoms did not exist in the sixties and birth control is up to her, she gets pregnant and he ditches her and it all gets found out after the abortion.

I really don't understand why Zindel is such YA hot shit.