Status Updates From Pink Smog: Becoming Weetzie...

I haven't read a Francesca Leah block book in decades. I'm a little confused because when I started this I assumed that it was the '90s. I thought the books were present day when they were released. But early in this book tweentzie Bat says that she was born the day Marilyn Monroe died. In 1962. She's 13 here. It's 1975. I thought that the charm was that it was kind of a magical old Hollywood feel but not the 70s.