In Perfect, four teens take extreme routes to achieve their diverse goals of perfection.
Bestselling author Ellen Hopkins explores the complex notion of what perfection means to four different teens in this moving companion to IMPULSE. While her twin brother, Connor, is in a psychiatric hospital due to a suicide attempt, Cara is coping with who she really is and if she wants to be what her mother expects of her, while her boyfriend, Sean, considers a future in baseball paramount, no matter the cost to his body. Connor's ex-girlfriend, Kendra, is obsessed with transforming herself into the perfect form for modeling, despite the agonies she puts herself through. And Andre longs to follow his passion for dance, rather than go into business, but is tortured by his family's wishes. Through loaded topics, including anorexia, steroid use, racism, and violence, Hopkins once again delves into troubled teens' psyches in verse to discover their personal truths.
- Genre: Juvenile Fiction
- Subgenre: Social Issues / Dating + Sex, Social Issues / Self-Esteem + Self-Reliance, Social Issues / Drugs + Alcohol + Substance Abuse
- Age: Teen
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Childrens
- Edition: Unabridged
- Language: English
- Format: audioCD
- Release Date: September 13, 2011
- Date Published: September 13, 2011
- Author: Ellen Hopkins
- Narrator: Aya Cash (Narrator), Heather Lind (Narrator), Aaron Tveit (Narrator), Tristan Wilds (Narrator)