My Favorite Girlfriend is a coming-of-age memoir, focusing on how a scrawny, funny-looking, audaciously witty, but naturally athletic, little kid leveraged his athletic skills into becoming a basketball phenom, thereby helping tiny Park Ridge High School in New Jersey to surprisingly secure the school’s first and only Group 1 State Basketball Championship in 1966.

This part of the memoir is comparable, in a manner, to the story in the movie Hoosiers, and the following year, it is reminiscent of the book My Losing Season by Pat Conroy. The plan all along was to become popular through athletics, and it succeeded beyond the author’s wildest dreams.  

The story details the constant desire for a girlfriend, as early as kindergarten. The author searched for an exceptional girl to love him, and, if not love, then provide a rambunctious, affectionate great experience until he found the love of a life, that is, his favorite girlfriend. This story captures all of the astonishing twists and turns along the way in pursuit of love, including woeful failures with the opposite sex, but some successes, too. The story is rich with numerous girlfriends, detailing the trials and tribulations with each of them, until a vision of beauty and brilliance presented herself and became the author’s favorite girlfriend.