Sticky (Travis Reichard), the main character, is a seventeen-year old white kid from a troubled background who s bounced from one foster home to another because of his anti-social behavior. Lanky, and with cropped raisin-brown hair, Sticky is the son of an absent father and a woman named Baby, who turns tricks to help support her only child, Sticky is so named because of his love for eating cupcakes as a child—he finds out as a teenager that his real name is Travis Reichard.
