Summary

In Chapter 1, the narrator mentioned she saw the pop star Aimee for the first time in a music video when she was ten and became obsessed with her dancing technique. The narrator and Tracey went to Lily Bingham’s birthday party and Tracey, feeling uncomfortable, became extremely sarcastic and angry, mocking the movie that the girls went to see—The Jungle Book—and calling a fellow classmate a “Paki” in the car on the way home from the theater. Later in the party, Tracey and the narrator organized a dance show for the other girls. They wore Lily’s mother’s lingerie and performed an extremely provocative dance. Lily’s mother caught them and told the narrator’s mother, who dragged them away and raged at them.

Chapter Two jumped forward to the narrator’s late twenties, when she was working...