In Perfect, four high school seniors are bombarded with all kinds of pressure to be the perfect person they each believe they should be. Everyone remembers what high school was like, Perfect, is an intense version. Hopkins immediately makes the perfect point (no pun intended) that what one person believes is perfect is far from what another believes.
“To each his own, the saying goes, so why push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is where you want to be?”
Perfect follows these four seniors and chronicles how they deal (or don’t deal) with the intense pressure to be someone else. Some of these issues may affect us all in some way or another: eating disorders, depression, rape, suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, race, it keeps going. Perfect is written in Hopkins’ customary style: verse plus alternating viewpoints, so it may not be for everyone however it is definitely a book worth reading. I really appreciated the Author’s Note in the back of the book as well. I would recommend reading that first.
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