This Boy’s Life

This Boy’s Life

Rating:  This Boy’s Life:  A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff.  Grove Press (2000), 304 pages. In This Boy’s Life, Wolff writes about growing up in the 1950s, moving from state to state with his mother as she tries to escape a violent boyfriend.  His...
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...