NATIONAL BESTSELLER Jann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becomi

"No matter what your current achievements or future aspirations, the advice in this book can save you years of hard learning"--Back cover

Coming-of-age is complicated by coming-out in personal essays leavened with humor, generosity, and all the awkward indignities of growing up.

'I am the person I always should have been, ' says Amy, 'except for a brief but total, unfathomable lapse of judgment in my youth.' Dubbed the 'Long Island Loli

From Juvenile Halls, Juvenile Camp, Multi Arrests, County Jail, Alcoholism, Marijuana Use, Gang Activity, Street Life, Drug Dealer, 22 years in State Prison, So