The world is bad. Brian Oswald has a lot of problems. He's a high school student, he's secretly in love with fat chick Gretchen, he goes to an all-boys Catholic school, and he gets hard all the time. He listens to heavy metal and punk rock and loves to sing in church. He faces unsolvable questions: how to get a girl to like him, how to dye his hair pink, who to go to prom with, but most importantly - how to become himself. From the pages of the book, an authentic, recognizable voice of a teenager sounds - perhaps for the first time since The Catcher in the Rye. . If you still think that childhood and adolescence are a wonderful time, meet Brian.