The Children of Holden. The connection between Erickson's Identity Crisis, Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye," and Teen Angst in Young Adult Fiction

I thank my sister Catherine Gilbert Murdock, who is not only a gifted writer of young adult fiction (her wonderful book Dairy Queen is a must-БЂ‹read for any thinking girl between the ages of ten and sixteen), but who is also my dearly beloved friend and the greatest intellectual role model of my life. She, too, read this book with time-БЂ‹consuming care, saving me from many errors of thought and sequence. That said, it is not so much CatherineБЂ™s comprehensive grasp of Western history that amazes me but her uncanny talent for somehow knowing when her homesick sister needs to be airmailed a new pair of pajamas, even when that sister is all the way over in Bangkok and feeling very lonely. In return for all CatherineБЂ™s kindness and generosity, I have offered her one lovingly crafted footnote. I thank all the other early readers of this book for their insights and encouragement: Darcey, Cat, Ann (the word БЂњpachydermБЂ«is for her), Cree, Brian (this book will always be known as Weddings and Evictions just between us), Mom, Dad, Sheryl, Iva, Bernadette, Terry, Deborah (who gently suggested that I might want to mention the word БЂњfeminismБЂ«in a book about marriage), Uncle Nick (my most loyal supporter since forever), Susan, Shea (who listened to hours and hours and hours of my early ideas on this subject), Margaret, Sarah, Jonny, and John ...»