When Jamie writes an editorial for her high school paper in favor of condom distribution and open discussion of homosexuality, she becomes embroiled in a community-wide controversy. Matters are complicated by Jamie's growing awareness that she is a lesbian. Things turn ugly when a local conservative group resorts to burning books. Garden's novel Annie on My Mind (1982) was burned several years ago, and this book is dedicated to the students and others who subsequently sued to save it from being banned.
