The Late Great Me

About this book

"Youve got to be somebody Geri. You cant be nobody. You dont want to be president of a lot of leftover people." Thats my mother talking. Shes always bugging me about "all-round popularity" which was important stuff back in the fifties--which if you ask me is where my mother is still living. Whatever "all-round popularity" is I didnt have it--until I started going out with Dave Townsend. He was new my junior year and very good looking. With Dave I could do anything--talk to anyone be funny even dance--as soon as he handed me my first bottle of wine. And my mother didnt have to worry about her daughter being nobody: I was on my way to becoming Queen of the Juicers the biggest lush at Walt Whitman High.