Mia's Family Like Caffeine Drinks Like The Mintchip Lattes Kim

Mia thinks Adam will like her more, but he tells her he doesn’t care what she looks like because she’s the same person with brown hair or with blonde. The last major symbol in this novel is coffee. Mia’s family likes coffee and the blacker the better. She decides that dark coffee is the cool way to drink it. According to her in chapter ten, there are “people who drank plain coffee and people who drank gussied-up caffeine drinks like the mintchip lattes Kim was so fond of.” That was a harsh bun on her best friend. One of the reasons Mia felt she could leave Kim behind was that she wasn’t cool enough. Mia says she applies to coolness, but the criteria is random. She’s confused about her identity which is why she hasn’t learned to think outside