The Tender Bar Review "A beautiful, gravelly love letter." -- Jonathan Miles, New York Times Book Review"Heart-wrenchingly funny." -- Carol Memmott, USA Today"Its a fierce and funny coming-of-age story about ambition and yearning and necessary betrayals . . . superb literary brew." -- Maureen Corrigan, NPRs Fresh Air"The best memoirist of his kind since Mary Karr wrote The Liars Club." -- Janet Maslin, New York Times"The only thing wrong with this terrific debut is that there has to be a closing time." -- Malcolm Jones, Newsweek  About the Author J.R. Moehringer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2000, is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He lives in Denver.