Almost Grown A New York Memoir

A literary memoir and coming-of-age story exploring native New Yorker Jesse Malin's boundless creativity and triumph over daunting challenges, both physical and emotional. "New York City is the center of the universe, and there is no New York City without Jesse Malin." --Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day JESSE MALIN IS A "GRITTY TROUBADOUR OF THE STREETS" (Rolling Stone) and "fearless storyteller" (Uncut) who tours internationally, and collaborates with artists like Bruce Springsteen, Green Day, Bob Weir from the Grateful Dead, and Lucinda Williams. Malin went from playing CBGB at age thirteen to Madison Square Garden in his twenties. His first solo album, The Fine Art of Self Destruction, which was hailed as "a masterpiece rising from the pain of a difficult youth" (Classic Rock), launched his long and successful solo career. Almost Grown is a raw, honest, and often funny account of how a hyperactive kid from Queens made his dreams come true--and the hustlers, sweethearts, misfits, and lifelong friends he met along the way. With Malin as its streetwise narrator, the book has more in common with The Basketball Diaries or Just Kids than with the standard rock biography.