First published 1975
Joyce Maynard was nineteen when she put her adolescence under a microscope. She examines what it meant to grow up as the sixties exploded around her generation. Maynard captures the specific texture of being young during those turbulent years, when the world seemed to shift beneath everyone's feet. She writes with the sharp eye of someone still close enough to childhood to remember its details but old enough to understand their weight. The tension comes from navigating between innocence and experience while history unfolds in real time. At its heart, this is about finding your voice when you're still discovering who you are, and proving that youth doesn't disqualify you from telling your own story.
Genres: american-fiction, 20th-century, american, coming-of-age, autobiography, adolescence, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Period: 1960s
160 pages · Hardcover · MICHAEL JOSEPH