Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

By E. Lockhart

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything is a young adult novel by E. Lockhart, published in 2006. Gretchen Yee, an artistic student at a Manhattan high school for the arts, wishes she could be a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room. One day she wakes up as a fly and spends a week watching her classmates. Lockhart turns the premise into a funny, frank look at boys, friendship and fitting in. The book reworks Kafka's The Metamorphosis.

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• John Green: “Also E Lockhart's Fly on the Wall, a brilliant feminist reworking of Kafka's Metamorphosis.”