Here that aim is to review the mind of the late adolescent on the cusp of adulthood opening up to the world and to himself.  Jacobs is masterful at portraying adolescents busily contending with one    another, their sexual desire fired by ramped up hormones, their aggression mobilized by pressing narcissistic issues, their triadic relationships fueled by the revival of Oedipal passions, while simultaneously busily renouncing their parents in the service of separating and gaining autonomy.