A Little Friendly Advice Analysis

Siobhan Vivian is an American screenwriter, editor and bestselling American novelist best known for her popular young adult fiction. Siobhan was born in 1979 New York City but her family moved to Rutherford, New Jersey soon after, which is where she spent much of her childhood. She went o Rutherford High School and credits much of her work to the experiences of her high school and childhood years. She went to the Philadelphia University of the Arts and attained her Television and Film script writing degree in 2001. She moved back to New York City to study at the New School from which she graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing in Children's literature. It was while she was studying for her MFA that she met Jenny Han and Morgan Matson the
Ruby has just had her mother give her a vintage Polaroid camera for her birthday. The gesture had sent her over the moon only for the day to turn out to be one of the worst in her life. Her father who has never been seen for six years arrives with a huge bouquet of flowers hoping to make up with his daughter. For Ruby, a bunch of flowers beautiful as they may be will not make up for all the time he was not around and she screams at him and runs off to the local park with her friends. They intend to get drunk and Ruby hopes she can forget the terrible experience of living without her inconsiderate father. She soon learns that closing the door to having her father in her life only opens five more. She teams up with Charlie a romantic prospect that makes cute buttons, gossipy Maria, dangerous Katherine, and loyal Beth only to find that love and friendship may not be as black and white as eh thought they
To get what she wants she has to ensure that her friends remain loyal and support her quest to become student council president by campaigning for her. She is also looking for the right type of boyfriend that will give her a good reputation and hence the typical school jerk that many presidents seem to go off will not do for Natalie.But life is never so much ordered as she would like it to be and soon she discovers she has no control over anything. Things are tougher for Natalie the president especially with her friends no longer comfortable sharing their secrets and freshmen trying to get the seniors to sleep with them. She also finds herself wanting back the boy she had once dismissed but never wanting anyone to ever find out she is sleeping with him given her quest for council president without scandal. Loser or winner? Saint or slut? Natalie is exhausted by all the choices she is forced to make when all she wants to be is free and in control of her