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A review by brooke_review
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss
3.0
I received an ARC copy of this book from the publisher.
This memoir provided an interesting glimpse into what it might have been like to be a wealthy Jewish teenage girl growing up in NYC in the ‘90s. I found the passages on Weiss’s life to be more entertaining than the pieces on Gary Wilensky. I believe that the memoir would have worked better if the author had actually been a victim of Wilensky. She had contact with him as one of “Gary’s Girls,” but nothing ever really happened (thankfully.) Therefore, this memoir wasn’t as scintillating as the blurb would have you believe.
This memoir provided an interesting glimpse into what it might have been like to be a wealthy Jewish teenage girl growing up in NYC in the ‘90s. I found the passages on Weiss’s life to be more entertaining than the pieces on Gary Wilensky. I believe that the memoir would have worked better if the author had actually been a victim of Wilensky. She had contact with him as one of “Gary’s Girls,” but nothing ever really happened (thankfully.) Therefore, this memoir wasn’t as scintillating as the blurb would have you believe.