Full name: Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia

Author: Mark Salzman Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Humor Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679767787 0679767789

From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the story of a teenager trying to attain enlightenment before he's learned to drive. Similar books: Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel All That Is Bitter & Sweet by Ashley Judd Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch Slow Love by Dominique Browning Townie by Andre Dubus Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg Dancing Fish and Ammonites by Penelope Lively Sky of Stone by Homer Hickam A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich Fat Girl by Judith Moore Moose by Stephanie Klein The Only Girl in the Car by Kathy Dobie Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon The Man in the Empty Boat by Mark Salzman Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Dry by Augusten Burroughs The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson