Grab On to Me Tightly as if I Knew the Way

An engaging, often hilarious coming-of-age novel of uncertainty and discovery oozing with early 90s nostalgia.  “Funny and unpredictable...(Charles) proves impressively adept at capturing the inchoate ache of adolescent longing.”    —  Washington Post It’s 1992, and America is caught in the grip of major Angst. In Washington, D.C., George H. W. Bush is rattling the mother of all sabres at Saddam Hussein. In Seattle, Curt Kobain is heady with the smell of teen spirit. And