"Karen's Web Of Chaos" begins on the last day of eighth grade, in June of 1992, when Karen is beaten up by a peer at school. She gets drunk at a party that night and tells her life story to a bunch of older kids who want to know why she got her ass kicked. She begins the complicated tale on the last day of summer, before sixth grade, and the book follows Karen's story of her middle school experience chronologically, from 1989-1992. It is a prequel to the other books in "The Offbeat Life Of Ren Anonymous" series about Ren's exciting but often traumatic teen years.