SOURCE: “A Tell-All That Sees All,” in Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 7, 1996, p. 6.

In the following review, Isaacs provides a favorable assessment of Harrison’s An Accidental Autobiography.

Watch out for the kid with the pen.

We are now in the age of very personal memoir. What began as shocking revelations of abuse, lunacy or coldheartedness by children of public personalities—Gary Crosby’s Going My Own Way and Christina Crawford’s Mommie Dearest—has become a form favored by the literary offspring of more private parents. In The Duke of Deception and This Boy’s Life, Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff, respectively, delineated the pain of their parents’ disastrous marriage. In The Shadow Man, novelist Mary Gordon exposed everything from her (formerly Jewish) father’s malignant anti-Semitism to the repulsive and provocative wet kisses she received from his toothless mouth.

Now it is journalist-travel writer-novelist Barbara Grizzuti...