Kingbird Highway
grrlscientist | May 16, 2006Did you read "coming of age" books when you were in high school? If so, what did you really think of them? Like most people, I read these books but I was unique among my peers because I never liked them, even when I was "coming of age". The authors of those books always struck me as being pathetic self-involved crybabies with no purpose in life beyond whining about "being misunderstood" by the world because the people around them wisely refused to indulge their every desire -- most of which were utterly ridiculous anyway. So I initially hesitated when one of my contacts at Houghton Mifflin…