At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over- protective mother's insistence on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things get complicated, and Simone has to decide which rules are worth breaking, and which should just be left alone.
Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistence on micro-managing her life. Like, picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family. Simone is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse-- even if he does not know that yet. Together with her friends, Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking: like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house. As things get complicated, Simone has to decide which rules are worth breaking, and which should just be left alone. -- adapted from run-on sentence provided