Love and Trouble: Memoirs of a Former Wild Girl

Claire Dederer's youth was wild, an endless cascade of beer and rock and acid and sex. After two decades of disciplined transformation, she'd become a successful writer, a faithful wife and a mother - a real adult. That is, until one morning at forty-four when she begins to have what she calls 'extremely inconvenient feelings' - feelings of recklessness and impatience and a sudden yearning for jailbreak. That hedonistic girl, 'that crazy bitch', was back - or had she never left?

With extraordinary insight, ingenuity and wit, LOVE AND TROUBLE captures the perils and pleasures of girlhood, womanhood and life itself.