All of which is right and expected in what is fundamentally a coming-of-age novel.

To write his coming-of-age novel, he believed he had to leave town and get some perspective.

Watching the show was like getting to the weepy part of a good coming-of-age novel.

A Connecticut mill town family breaks up in this coming-of-age novel.

It's like a coming-of-age novel of life after death.

There's a big wolf in this coming-of-age novel, but not all he does to the heroine is bad.

What we actually get is a readable, if slightly gray, coming-of-age novel.

Gwendolin will provide the love interest in this coming-of-age novel.

In other words, Gregory is a kid with all the right stuff for a 1960's coming-of-age novel.

I labored for some time on a coming-of-age novel that never did work out.