Sexual abuse recovery narrative, where going away to college allows the narrator to come to grips with the abuse she faced (and also spend some time freaking out and not coming to grips). The secondary characters largely seemed to have stories of their own as real people do, even if they were set up to perform specific functions in the narrator’s arc; I think my “meh” reaction is simply because there was no f/sf content and thus this is outside my genres. ( )