Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir, by Janice Erlbaum

I''m never sure what to expect from a memoir...some of them are dry and boring and some are so scandalous and dirty that I find them hard to swallow. Girlbomb is a quick, interesting glimpse of a girl in the 80s who walks out of her mother's apartment because of a horrible stepfather. She's never really homeless and details her experiences in shelters and group homes and the high school she still attends. Fairly predictably, she does drugs, has promiscuous sex, etc., but the writing is engaging, and she never sounds smug, which is a common weakness in memoir. She seems to recognize herself as being sort of pathetic, sort of lovable, and definitely flawed.