Rich Cohen says he set out to write the 80's suburban epic. What he ended up with was a book called "Lake Effect." It's a memoir of his life growing up in a suburb north of Chicago along Lake Michigan. His high school was the setting for a number of popular teen movies in the those years. But Cohen says nobody has written about his generation from an adult perspective in a way that isn't ironic or embarrassed. Cohen told Minnesota Public Radio's Tom Crann the book centers around his close friendship with a kid called Jamie, who was seen as so cool even teachers wanted to imitate him.