Chapters 22-24Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 22 Summary: “Tuesday, October 14, Homeroom"’ “More Tuesday, Algebra”’ “More Tuesday, English”; “More Tuesday, French”; “Tuesday Night”
Mia and Lilly still aren’t talking, but Mia continues to hang out with Tina Hakim Baba. In fact, Tina asks Mia to come over for dinner and spend the night on Friday. When Mia learns that “Lilly has a date to the Cultural Diversity Dance this weekend” (172), she becomes distraught and claims that she will be the only one not going to the dance. Mia wonders why she was “born under such an unlucky star” (173) and longs to be a “five-foot-six normal person with breasts” (173). During G & T, Michael asks Mia about the “Weinberger Incident” and assures her that Lilly has “never said mean things about [Mia],” but “doesn’t understand why [Mia] blew up at her like that” (174). Mia doesn’t mention being the Princess of Genovia or princess lessons, but she tells Michael that she has a lot going on in her life right now.
Meanwhile, Lilly’s boycott of Ho’s Deli isn’t going well, because “all the Asian kids have started doing their shopping exclusively at Ho’s,” and “the popular kids [...] aren’t honoring the boycott at all” (175). Michael starts to ask Mia about her Saturday plans but is interrupted by the teacher. Mia assumes that Michael wants to meet up to “go over [her] long division, which he says is a human tragedy” (176), so she avoids him after class.
