First-person writing must always be accountable. Fiction can be an act of psychic rage. Maynard turns out not to have an introspective bone in her body. Even Katha Pollitt, well aware of the negative press that women give to other women, faults Maynard for failing to understand her own story. After finishing the book and discovering that she was by no means the only girl who passed through Salinger's life, Maynard makes a final trip to Cornish.
People do affect each other.
I can't think of anything more legitimate to ask. Die For, Where Love Goes, Domestic Affairs, Baby Love, and her memoir Looking Back, which she wrote at the age of eighteen. Born and raised in New Hampshire, Joyce Maynard now lives in northern California with her three children.