Claire, who grew up in Northern Virginia, with parents from New England, has never had any real connection to Confederate iconography-she wore the bikini at the behest of her winter fling-and yet she is emboldened after the president of the campus libertarians defends the photo as a symbol of her right to free expression. After a photo of Claire wearing a Confederate flag bikini goes viral, her return to college kicks off a blistering debate on the flag’s history. Petersburg, Florida, with her dad and “almost stepmother,” provides a case study for how the book engages in conflicts both epic and intimate, examining a friendship undone by grief and a college campus upended by controversy.
In “Boys Go To Jupiter,” Claire, a young white college student who spends the winter break in St.
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