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Breakfast with Tiffany : An Uncle's Memoir
Breakfast with Tiffany An Uncle's Memoir Author:Edwin John Wintle A wry, moving memoir chronicling the roller-coaster year a successful gay man took in his troubled teenaged niece. Ed Wintle was a successful, urbane professional whose life, at forty, was very comfortable. He had reached the point when he looked around at his well-ordered, unfettered single existence and wondered, "Is this all there is... more »?" After a desperate call from his sister at her wit's end, his street-wise thirteen-year-old niece Tiffany -- a writhing ball of adolescent anger -- comes to live with him. If he felt he needed a shot in the arm, what he got proved more like electroshock therapy. Breakfast with Tiffany chronicles the newly minted family through the first school year -- autumn, winter, and spring. It follows them through the tumult and drama, as instant parent Uncle Eddy watches his best-laid plans go awry. With an edgy wit and compassion, Ed Wintle recounts not only the coming of age of his beloved, if troubled, niece, but his own as well. In the vein of Augusten Burroughs and David Sedaris, Wintle tells the story with humor and insight, even as he vacillates between adoring his vulnerable niece and abhorring her behavior. Just when it seems there is certain disaster, the two manage to pull through it with their unconventional little family in better shape than ever.« less
This is a good feel book and it made me gush all through it. This is an adorable gay man raising a darling girl. By the end of the book, I had wished I had an uncle as awesome as he is! Looking for a good read, this is it!