A simple, honest memoir about an ambitious twentysomething guy with literary aspirations from the Midwest who moves to New York City, finds a job in marketing while trying to get published, and survives the World Trade Center attacks. Fresh, frequently humorous, and refreshingly unembellished.
This book reminded me, not in the best way, of my life when I was 19, the kind of conversations my friends and I would have and how we didn't know what we were doing. That was 2004, but in so many ways we were stuck in the 90s. So the music was the same, the clothes were the same, the attitude was t...
Fantastic example of what a coming-of-age novel can be. Avoids sentimentality and really moves forward thanks to Charles's ability to write really profound, wonderful sentences. Essentially the tale of a kid graduating HS in the early 90s. But it takes place in Michigan, so it has this great feeling...
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