I’m looking for a book which revisits childhood/teenage memories. As someone in their late 20s who has now had the sort of gut wrenching realisation that that part of my life is over, I’d love a book which explores this feeling. Think going to the same places and suddenly feeling like you don’t belong anymore, or bumping into the people you grew up with – the intimacy of spending all that time together in school, yet the realisation that you’re now strangers.
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Coming up for Air by George Orwell. A man revisits his boyhood haunts and finds everything changed and so has he.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. About childhood and growing up in early 20th century Brooklyn.
Catcher in the Rye?