Are you a masochist? You’ll enjoy this book. Zimmerman charts a course out of that comfortable place, the one where you’re in control, where everything is just fine. Except that it’s not, because it’s likely you’re self-absorbed, building your own little suburb of one. The author deals with sensitive core issues. He’s vulnerable with his own shortcomings, and doses of hilarity often mollify the pain. This clever book offers “escape routes”—introspection that will help you out of Me-Ville. “Mapping our escape from superbia [prideful self-absorption] will involve … coming to terms with who we have become, and how we have fallen short of who we could be.” Good for you or your teen, because God knows, we all need out of Me-Ville.
