It's official: the awkward Brandeisian stereotype has made its way into fiction. If you've ever pondered what would happen if a Brandeis kid stumbled onto an American Pie film set, look no further than David H. Steinberg's new book, Last Stop This Town.


Meet Walker Schlossberg: He wears khakis, button-downs, has a Jew-fro, a 3.7 GPA and his friend, Dylan, admits (sarcastically or not, you pick) that he's "super sexy." This guy is probably your roommate.


Walker, along with his pals Noah, Dylan and Pike, celebrates the last weekend before high school trying to get laid. The stakes are really high for Walker: He is a virgin and an incoming Brandeis student.


But at record Brandeisian speed, Walker loses his virginity by page 160 out of 184 in the book. You go, Walker.


Steinberg, who wrote the screenplays for several films in the American Pie series, Slacker and National Lampoon's Barely Legal, wrote his debut novel as a kind of innocent prequel to these porn-like movies.


In a moment of meta-narration, the narrator says: "Maybe deep down [the boys] knew college wasn't really going to be like Animal House ... it was the part they didn't show you in American Pie movies and on Greek."


Like the part where the boys survive an almost-fatal car chase together, or the part where Dylan can't hand over his friends' yearbooks because there's too much to write.


But Last Stop This Town hardly leaves raunchiness at the curb, even though its protagonists just learned to drive. The friends skip "Beach Weekend," a last hoorah graduation bash, opting to drive into New York City from their hometown of West Hartford, Conn.


The city, besides providing a petri dish of debauchery for the boys, offers "Stark Raving Mad 2012," a rave tellingly sponsored by Smirnoff Ices.


The book, at times, reads too much like an inappropriate American Pie for the younger set, like when Dylan and Noah take a dip in a Jacuzzi at The Plaza Hotel with 12-year-olds before realizing they're 12-year-olds.


Steinberg captures that teenage dilemma: the boys are too old for junior-high schoolers, yet too young for most 20-somethings.


How can Pike prove his credibility to his pseudo-intellectual crush that's enrolled in the women's studies department at New York University?


Especially when she says things such as, "We really need to explore the unstable nexus of gender, sexuality, race and class in order to subvert the phallocentric hegemony." Sound familiar?


The biggest problem for Walker, Dylan, Pike and Noah isn't that they have to prove themselves. It's that they're leaving behind friends who they never had to prove themselves to in the first place.


Dylan, the one most prone to contemplative moods, screams at his wingman, Noah, "Your life as you know it is gone! Your friends. Your family. This chapter has come to an end. And spoiler alert, we're not going to be best friends in chapter two."


It seems harsh, but it's the reality many high school kids don't think about as they countdown the days until graduation, and it's what Steinberg drives at that makes his novel work.


In the meantime, Dylan ensures that his buddies make memories for a lifetime. When Walker unwittingly picks up a hooker from the street, Dylan whispers knowingly to the police officer, "He's going to Brandeis next year."