Proud, headstrong and slutty, aspiring punk Emily Black longs to
start her own band and find her mother, who disappeared when she
was only four. The saga of her rise, fall and re-rise to punk-rock
stardom could very well deserve its own series. Here, however, it's
crammed into a fat but tight volume where the pages are packed so
densely with melodrama readers will need to flip back and forth to
keep track of the plot. The first half feels much more distilled
than the latter: Kuehnert's language is slick. The punk references
bite with genuine angst and hunger, and Emily's tough, sardonic
attitude, as revealed through chunky, poetic language, is
feverishly tempting. After page 200, however, the timing between
plot points quickly becomes compressed: Hearts are broken and then
put back together again in one page. Lengthy scenes of Emily's mom
hooking, drinking, shooting up and feeling empty make the obvious
point that their lives are parallel, but the device neglects the
principle that in the world of YA fiction, less is usually more.
(Fiction. YA) (Kirkus Reviews)
A raw, edgy, emotional novel about growing up punk and living to
tell. The Clash. Social Distortion. Dead Kennedys. Patti Smith. The
Ramones. Punk rock is in Emily Black's blood. Her mother, Louisa,
hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was
four months old and never came back. Now Emily's all grown up with
a punk band of her own, determined to find the tune that will bring
her mother home. Because if Louisa really is following the music,
shouldn't it lead her right back to Emily?
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