This book deals with teen-agers in love and the lengths they go to make a relationship work when everything is against it. Ingenuity makes the impossible happen.

The person who falls in love at first sight is seventeen-year-old Henry Schiller who can hardly remember talking to his deceased father about anything except cooking for the restaurant.

He has a void in his life which causes him to get into serious crushes with girls. He needs to be a "two" instead of a "one." The girl who manipulates him is the beautiful senior, Valerie Kissenwiser. She is the daughter of Al Kiss, a stand-up comedian who adores her, and she becomes entangled in a triangle with Henry and her father.

Al Kiss is really the most important character. Through his dealings with Henry he reveals his own insecurity, his lack of formal education, his love...