Friendship And Grief Summary

I think the book is about friendship and grief, it shows the influence of grief on friendship. I think with these two themes you can come up with an amazing story but I find that the writer did not utilise these themes as much as she could. She just illustrates a really bad friendship in which grief and acceptance is just not enough convincing. So the book is also about the friendship between Anna and Frankie and to me it feels that remaining their friendship has no purpose, the first problem that has to be solved is Anna and Frankie coming to terms with their secrets for each other and then the consequence of that is that their friendship will remain. But for what purpose? So Frankie keeps on insisting that Anna should have sex and keeps pushing
her to wear certain clothes. That's not a good friend right? The reason why Frankie does that is because of her grief for her brother Matt. His death changed the way she thought: she started to get more interest in boys, clothes etcetera. Throughout the story it felt like Frankie had two sides: one where she is only interested in boys and romance, and the other where she only cares about Anna. I would be satisfied if I got to know Frankie from the inside; her feelings, emotions, dreams... On the other hand my only impression of Anna is that she has a friend which keeps on pushing her to lose her virginity and she never really says no despite her memories and love for Matt.