Thus, Erica was always well looked after, probably even too well, but she didn't have access to the love of her father. However, not by her father, but be people he hired. Although, it's not clearly mentioned, Erica was probably well cared for in her childhood. He shows great concern for Erica, but is not around her much. Ted's the one readers will fall in love with his gentle but fierce loyalty, his vulnerability, and his struggle to stay sober in college will make readers long to reach into the pages and befriend this lonely and troubled guy.Erica does not fare well the first time "alone" from her overprotective father, whose protection she despises. His descriptions of Erica's binge-purge ritual are sensual enough to be unsettling her motivations are not located in some abusive past but in the physical thrills of the ritual itself. Coburn devises a tangled moral problem in this story, which his preface sets up as a fictionalization of two young correspondents' real experiences. Erica clearly needs help but doesn't want it Ted wants to help but knows that telling her father is not the way to do it Michael just wants money. The initial narration, especially the emails between Erica's father and Michael, the man he has hired to find a suitable spy, are encoded in a clipped and estranging doublespeak, but as the narrative evolves, their plan becomes clear the ethics remain intriguingly complicated. After taking the job, Ted soon finds himself lying in his reports about Erica, with whom he has fallen in love. He is faced with an offer he can't refuse when a strange man appears at his door with the offer of a free four-year ride just for keeping an eye on a classmate named Erica, since Erica is addicted to bingeing and purging, and her very wealthy father wants someone to keep watch over her during her first year away from home. His accident also lands him in Alcoholics Anonymous since he started drinking in grade school, that's just where he needs to be. Ted's plans for cruising through college on a basketball scholarship are canceled when he wraps his truck around a tree, crushing his knee in the process.
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