Critical Praise

The Wall Street Journal "Original, quirky, poignant, and hilarious. "

———Los Angeles Times

"A winner...life-affirming. "

———San Francisco Chronicle

"A wonderfully vivid chronicle of a young girl's coming of age...funny and sad, irreverent and generous...A model memoir. "

———Michiko

Kakutani, New York Times "Sharp-witted and funny but never mean. A lovely novelistic memoir. "

———Julie Salamon,