After the 13-year-old went into the bathroom, she "emerged maybe forty-five minutes later having aged, biologically, at least seven years," he writes. "The day the hormone bomb detonated marked the end of the era where my daughter viewed me as an authority," Barry says from his hotel in New York. Barry has three events in the Bay Area this weekend, in Oakland, Corte Madera and Petaluma to promote his new book, so we asked him what advice he'd offer to other fathers with daughters of a similar age: Having kids helps with that because they figure out early on that you're not cool - and the harder you try to be cool to them, the less cool you will be, so I think people without kids have trouble learning this important life lesson. [...] how does Sophie feel about her father using her journey through puberty as fodder for his latest book? Tony DuShane is a freelance writer who hosts the radio show "Drinks With Tony."
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