In the book, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, author and narrator, Phoebe Gloeckner, gives a raw account of teenage life in San Francisco in the late 1990s. The novel details the life of a 15-year-old named Minnie who begins to explore her sexuality with help from her 35-year-old boyfriend, Monroe.
This is an important book for several reasons: it is written by a woman who has experienced “the struggles of being young and female” first hand; it also paints an honest picture of teenage life in San Francisco—a city that is often glamorized as perfect.