A review by laurelinwonder
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss

4.0

Time to catch up on some reviews. I will not tell you that this memoir captivated me from the get-go and held my attention the entire time. I will however tell you that it is an incredibly interesting perspective, and I don't think we have a lot of memoirs that are this raw and honest about something that people might judge them for. Because why would one obsess over a tennis teacher who did not choose them as a victim? That is what this memoir digs into. It's one of those memoirs that doesn't interest seeing things in terms of narrative and chapter structure, so for those who are writers this is an interesting read for that alone. There's also a lot about just growing up in the '90s in New York, as well as those who have an elite background, and the problems within that. So this is not a gory who done it, tail from a victim's perspective, instead it's from an outsider's perspective who is also within that world. Really interesting and so for that four stars definitely merited.