Rebecca sees something more in O. Z. than a weird kid with a vacant stare, and brushes off super-athlete Martin Stewart for a weekend at O. Z.'s family's beach house, where he allows her a glimpse of his inner landscape.
A high-school senior whose strong conscience earns him the moniker "Saint Bruce," unwittingly turns in his friends for a misdeed and realizes there is a difference between righteousness and self-righteousness, in a novel both funny and profound.