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You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession
Piper Weiss
William Morrow
April 2018
On Sale: April 10, 2018
352 pages
ISBN: 0062456571
EAN: 9780062456571
Kindle: B0713W46F3
Hardcover / e-Book
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A riveting blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir—
The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep—that presents an intimate
and thought-provoking portrait of girlhood within
Manhattan’s exclusive private-school scene in the early
1990s, and a thoughtful meditation on adolescent obsession
and the vulnerability of youth. Piper Weiss was fourteen years old when her middle-aged
tennis coach, Gary Wilensky, one of New York City’s most
prestigious private instructors, killed himself after a
failed attempt to kidnap one of his teenage students. In
the aftermath, authorities discovered that this well-known
figure among the Upper East Side tennis crowd was actually
a frightening child predator who had built a secret torture
chamber—a "Cabin of Horrors"—in his secluded rental in the
Adirondacks. Before the shocking scandal broke, Piper had been thrilled
to be one of "Gary’s Girls." "Grandpa Gary," as he was
known among his students, was different from other adults—
he treated Piper like a grown-up, taking her to dinners,
engaging in long intimate conversations with her, and
sending her special valentines. As reporters swarmed her
private community in the wake of Wilensky’s death, Piper
learned that her mentor was a predator with a sordid
history of child stalking and sexual fetish. But why did
she still feel protective of Gary, and why was she
disappointed that he hadn’t chosen her? Now, twenty years later, Piper examines the event as both a
teenage eyewitness and a dispassionate investigative
reporter, hoping to understand and exorcise the childhood
memories that haunt her to this day. Combining research,
interviews, and personal records, You All Grow Up and Leave
Me explores the psychological manipulation by child
predators—their ability to charm their way into seemingly
protected worlds—and the far-reaching effects their actions
have on those who trust them most.
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