Chapter 1 Summary

Kate is helping her father at their booth at the mall. Her father was working at a software company, when he went into work to find his desk broken into one day. Everything on the desk was broken, except for a bottle of "Perfect You" vitamins that he bought from a departing employee. Kate's father took this as a sign that he should be selling the vitamins and opened a booth at the mall. When Kate returns home with her father after selling two bottles of vitamins the entire day, she finds her mother frowning at the checkbook, and her wannabe actor and college-educated brother watching basketball.

Chapter 1 Analysis

Kate infers that her family is having money problems since her father quit his job to sell vitamins. She also implies that her father becomes easily obsessed with things and then drops them to...