num_pages: 225
description: Bernard Cooper recalls his 1960s adolescence in Los Angeles and the emotional rollercoaster of puberty in this painfully honest memoir. He recounts the schoolboy crushes, the family strife, and the ebb and flow of youthful desire, all with a "humor that animates just about every sentence" (New York Times Book Review).
language: English
title: Truth Serum: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Truth Serum: A Memoir
genres: Biography, Essays, Gay, Queer, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir, LGBT
ratings_count: 168
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Gay Men's Biography/Autobiography
publisher: Houghton Mifflin