This Boy's Life

Driving out to North Cascades National Park, you pass through Concrete. It looked like a city with history. Wikipedia mentioned that This Boy's Life was set there, so it looked like a good book to read. In the book, the author and his mother travel from the east coast to Utah in search of mining riches. That doesn't pan out, so they settle in Salt Lake. After a breakup, they move to Seattle. After further issues, it is off to the mountains. He lives 30 minutes from Concrete and attends school there. He spends time in boy scouts and becomes Catholic. He also has to endure abusive step parents and engages in a life of mischief at all stops.  He eggs cars with a buddy, kills animals with his gun and commits all sorts of petty theft. He is not the top of guy you would want to meet up with. Somehow out of all this he becomes a writer.