Lee Fiora

Lee Fiora is the main character and narrator of this novel. She is a girl of above average intelligence from a small town in Indiana. Lee decides she wants to go to boarding school because she hopes to find a smart, handsome boyfriend there. Lee applies for Ault on her own. After she is accepted and receives a scholarship, her parents allow her to decide to attend or not.

Lee loves women’s magazines. She fantasizes about having a sexual relationship. Her first fantasies are about boys in general but by the middle of her freshman year she decides Cross Sugarman, another freshman at Ault, is the object of her desire. Lee centers on Cross because she and Cross wound up going to the same mall during Ault’s surprise holiday. At the mall Cross helps Lee when she passes out after having her ears pierced. They...