Liza

Liza is the novel's narrator. She claims she is a lonely person, though more out of choice then necessity, choosing to spend her time studying architecture. Her goal is to attend the architectural course at MIT.

It is while researching her solar project at the Metropolitan Museum that she meets Annie - the girl that changes her life forever. Annie helps Liza face up to her sexuality, which she eventually finds was the root of her feeling like an outsider.

Liza hints that before their meeting she hid herself behind her school activities at Foster's Academy. As school president, she ran the student council meetings and overlooked the behavior of the students.

For this reason the Foster's headmistress, Mrs. Poindexter, suspends Liza at the beginning at the novel for not reporting Sally Jarrett. According to Mrs. Poindexter for a school president to breach the school's reporting rule is...