How Are You Going to Save Yourself

I was going to give this book a 2 stars rating because while the writing is smooth there were many things about this book that bothered me deeply and I did not really enjoy reading large sections of this book but I think it deserve a little bit more credit than that.
This book contains rape/sexual assault depicted as just par for the course somehow? The characters we follow and are supposed to root for (maybe?) are the perpetrators of the assaults, at first I hated the casual callousness with which sexual assault was depicted but after sitting with it for a while I don't think it's callousness so much as brutal realism, a lot of the people who commit these acts literally don't think it's that big of a deal and the victim is largely a non-quantity for them, it is in fact par for the course for them and maybe that is something people need to actually internalize.
We are never really told why these guys are such lousy people, while they appear somewhat underprivileged, they don't appear to have come from the kind of entirely hopeless and toxic environments that would have required them to become that detached and blasé, or perhaps it's something that the intended readership would have understood without needing to be told? Or maybe it's part of the point this book is trying to make, we are not supposed to root for them, we are supposed to just absorb their story with the same kind of cold detachment they express?
This was marked as a coming of age story but at the end I did not feel like the characters displayed any of the growth you would expect from a coming of age story, they become adults, yes, adults with adult lives and emotionally stunted teenage minds apparently so in the end it seemed like the answer to How Are You Going To Save Yourself was you won't.