A bittersweet tome about coming of age in 1970s San Francisco.
Phoebe Gloeckner's Diary of a Teenage Girl begins with a note of caution. "This book," it reads, "contains private information...if you do read on, don't you dare ever let me know that you did or I swear to God I will kill myself or run away or do any number of self-destructive things. I beg of you, for my sake and yours, do not do not do not." And...