I'll keep this short. Yes, this is a fairly unique book; in my experience, I have yet to come across another. The writing, however, is truely dreadful. It reads like a typical high school student wrote it. Some things mentioned, like preferences to lox on bagels, are amazingly tedious and quite inconsequential to the story as a whole. As a work of art, it is sub-par. As a ground-breaking subject for an adolescent novel, it does well. Most innocence-lost books are much more dramatic, but atypical drama would defeat the purpose here. Read it if you want to hear of an everyday, ho-hum, teenager dealing with her first relationship and loosing her virginity. It will sound very much like your own, perhaps, and very much like all the stories you've heard from your friends. Don't read it if you prefer depth in plot & exploration of character, for that's not the point of this book's existence.