In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani characterized Prozac Nation as ``by turns wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware,'' comparing it with the ``raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song.'' While praising Wurtzel's prose style as ``sparkling'' and ``luminescent,'' Kakutani thought the memoir ``would have benefited enormously from some strict editing'' and said that its ``self-pitying passages make the reader want to shake the author, and remind _her_ that there are far worse fates than growing up during the '70s in New York and going to Harvard.'' <sep>, Pronoun: her