A few nights later, however, Wesley approaches Bianca at the club again after Bianca had a particularly bad day, and Bianca spontaneously kisses Wesley in order to distract herself from her problems.īianca's mother Gina, a self-help lecturer, has been disappearing for longer and longer periods of time on her business trips, and one day she sends Bianca's father, Mike, divorce papers. Disgusted, Bianca finds her friends and leaves. He explains that he wants people to see him talking with her, because she is the DUFF, the Designated Ugly Fat Friend, and a connection with her will bring other, more attractive women to him. One January night as Casey and Jessica are dancing, another student named Wesley Rush, who has a reputation as a womanizer, approaches Bianca. High school student Bianca Piper, along with her friends Casey Blithe and Jessica Gaither, frequent a teen lounge called the Nest. A companion novel, Lying Out Loud, was released on April 28, 2015, and is set in the same universe as The DUFF.

A film based on the novel, also entitled The DUFF, was released on February 20, 2015. Keplinger was 17 when she wrote the novel, which was released on September 7, 2010. The DUFF is a 2010 young adult novel by American author Kody Keplinger. Print ( hardcover, paperback), e-book, audiobook

Lying Out Loud by Kody Keplinger