A dystopia, "Uglies" unfolds in a world with a unique coming-of-age ritual. On their 16th birthday, people undergo a surgery that turns them into their “healthy, happy, pretty” selves ...

and gets the surgery first. When they say goodbye, Peris tells Tally to meet him on the bridge between the Uglies dorm and New Pretty Town in a month, and he’ll tell her all about it.