A humorous coming-of-age memoir, the book chronicles Wilsey's troubled years growing up in a wealthy and prominent San Francisco family.

A coming-of-age memoir by a man whose parents - a San Francisco society columnist and a real estate tycoon - divorced when he was 9.

This coming-of-age memoir, which mixes poetry and prose, was the grand prize winner in the 2010 New York Book Festival.

And this book winds up working best as an imaginative coming-of-age memoir, one that exerts considerable narrative pull even if it should turn out to be science fiction.

A coming-of-age memoir in prose poems and period photographs.

A coming-of-age memoir by a writer so skillful his account of his sufferings as a rich kid never becomes insufferable.

Frank Rich's wonderful coming-of-age memoir persuasively bears her out.

Insight is the linchpin of a spiritual coming-of-age memoir like this.

A coming-of-age memoir of a fatherless boy for whom the regulars at a Long Island saloon become a substitute family.

The coming-of-age memoir gets more attention if its narrator learned about life at a socially prestigious school.