"This highly original novel Dear Diary, is a marriage of The World of Henry Orient and Catcher in the Rye as a chronicle of a school girl's natural curiosity and deep humanity guides through the community of homeless denizens of the upper West Side, and their impact on each other. The scenes and people are vividly portrayed, like photos shot with a lens that captures the secret innocence in children and in many of those who have found themselves living off the grid. Dear Diary is a sleeper of a story that will keep you wide awake." –Paul Pines