Obviously this woman considers herself a good writer, and indeed in ways she may be, but she still doesn't know when she should use "me" instead of "I":

Bouncers—Nigerian bouncers, bouncers from Berlin, underage bouncers I had known in grade school—waved my friends and I out of the crowd, to the front of the line,

should be:

"waved my friends and me out of the crowd"

Pet peeve, see it everywhere. Published authors should know this. This is the most basic of grammar.