When Skateboards Will Be Free

When Skateboards Will Be Free

Rating:  When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood, by Said Sayrafiezadeh.  The Dial Press (2009), 287 pages. There was a time when I couldn’t get enough of tragic childhood memoirs.  I would be appalled and heartbroken on behalf...
The Only Girl in the Car

The Only Girl in the Car

Rating:  The Only Girl in the Car, by Kathy Dobie.  The Dial Press (2003), 240 pages. This book has much in common with the memoir Lucky. Both authors describe a rape in excruciating detail, while at the same time writing about their families and their years...