Half His Age follows Waldo, an independent teenage girl with a complicated relationship to her mother. And that’s exactly how I feel about my writing process, and really my life, because writing is how I process everything.” I had my own age-gap affair long before I’d ever read about one, and even longer before I’d ever written about one. “As such she becomes a double victim—not only her life but also her life story is taken from her.” “The memory of writing the memoir slowly accumulates until it usurps the events you are trying to capture.”