Grady Hendrix is my truth pebble

I don't understand how Grady Hendrix is a MASTER at writing women's voices, but my goddess!!!... I feel so Seen. The hyper-importance of all the silly minutiae shared with a best friend. The heartbreak of a friend breakup, or falling out with a clique. The loneliness of growing up, changing, watching the people who were your most special someones morph in unrecognizable ways, and just wanting a magic Reset button. The classism and scapegoating that make it so easy to blame and discredit poor, edgy little girls. All of the conspiracy theories of the 80's, the war on drugs, the war for youth culture: to be innocent, or wild. To be "possessed" by the latest fad, or jealousy, or depression. The power of rumors, lies, criticism, even our own self-doubt, to warp reality and drag us down, a depressive force stronger than gravity. To feel disassociated from the teenage years, that hellion wasn't me, not who I want to be....

Standing. Freaking. Ovation!!!!!! Grady Hendrix can do no wrong!!!!!