Ennui turns to hysteria, and studies are cast aside, as a pair of American art-college students set out to get the guys
Paulina and Fran are two American art students who form a brief friendship that seems to define their early life. Paulina is big (“curvy, or one could say sturdy, or even, as her enemies would say, chubby”), sexy, witty and cruel, while Fran is quieter and more subtly attractive: “There was something innovative in the layout of her face, but her expression showed no understanding of this.”
Of the two, Fran is more serious about her artistic aspirations, though this isn’t saying much. Paulina is a kind of female Don Juan. Her current focus is Tim; at a party she pushes him against a wall. “Everyone cheered and danced while she knelt before him, unzipping his fly. It felt wrong to watch, but Fran watched.”
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