For parents panicked by the sex- and alcohol-obsessed students in Tom Wolfe’s “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” the non-fiction “My Freshman Year” offers some reassurances. Wolfe’s novel ââ?¬Å?is dramatizing a particular truth,ââ?¬Â says Cathy Small, who wrote Freshman under a pseudonym, Rebekah Nathan. ââ?¬Å?I certainly saw ââ?¬Â¦ kids who were quite surprised at some of the freedom they had.ââ?¬Â But for the most part, day-to-day life was not quite so dramatic, she says.
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