Reviews and Blog Posts: coming of age stories

A slowly-unfolding story of the earth's days lengthening told by an 11 year old girl. This is not the in-your-face apocalypse novel that I've become accustomed to. It's really the story of growing up and learning about the frailties of relationships and social constructs in the midst of a time...

A coming of age story narrated by Cliffy Douglas and set in 1970s Cincinnati.  One of my favorite "first novel by a writer"…truly remarkable writing.

I like coming-of-age stories and enjoy them even more when you have clashes of both culture and parental units.  Nguyen uses humor to diffuse the pain of growing up Vietnamese in 1970's Michigan.