Worthy of note: A teenage girl gets pregnant and is pressured by her boyfriend into getting an abortion. When her church's pastor finds out, he publicly condemns her in front of the whole congregation and demands she either repent or leave. She chooses to leave, as do her parents. The boyfriend was not reprimanded in any way. This event is not shown on-page but the aftermath is explored throughout the novel. Later, the same pastor finds another girl's journal where she describes her feelings for another girl. He reads an entry aloud to the congregation and demands whoever wrote it out herself and repent, or that anyone who knows who it is tell him. Instead, multiple girls claim it's theirs in order to protect the girl who wrote it.