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A raw and bold memoir about abuse and addiction, and the power of
expression and community that helped Stephanie Kuehnert, the
author of Ballads of Suburbia and regular Rookie
contributor, survive and thrive. Told in varied narrative styles,
including journal entries, original illustration, and pages torn
from her actual diaries and zines, this is the memoir of
Stephanie's life as a struggling outsider who survived substance
and relationship abuse to become a strong young woman after years
and years trapped in a cycle that sometimes seemed to have no
escape.
Years before she would become a published author... years before
she would find a voice and a home in the Riot Grrrl movement and
emerging zine community, Stephanie Kuehnert struggled to find her
place. Told in varied narrative styles, including journal entries,
original illustration, and pages torn from her actual teenage
diaries and zines, this is the story of Stephanie Kuehnert’s life
as a struggling outsider who survived substance and relationship
abuse to become a strong and powerful young woman after years
trapped in a cycle that sometimes seemed to have no escape. From
the author of Ballads of Suburbia and former Rookie contributor
Stephanie Kuehnert, this bold and bare memoir about a life shaped
by music and writing is unflinching and devastatingly honest.
Ballads are the kind of songs that Kara McNaughton likes best. Not
the cliched ones where a diva hits her dramatic high note or a rock
band tones it down a couple of notches for the ladies, but the true
ballads: the punk rocker or the country crooner reminding their
listeners of the numerous ways to screw things up. In high school,
Kara helped maintain the "Stories of Suburbia" notebook, which
contained newspaper articles about bizarre, tragic events from
suburbs all over America, and personal vignettes that Kara dubbed
"ballads" written by her friends in Oak Park, just outside of
Chicago. But Kara never wrote her own ballad. Before she could
figure out what her song was about, she left town suddenly at the
end of her junior year. Now, four years later, Kara returns to her
hometown to face the music, needing to revisit the disastrous
events that led to her leaving, in order to move on with her life.
Intensely powerful and utterly engaging, "Ballads of Suburbia
"explores the heartbreaking moments when life changes unexpectedly,
and reveals the consequences of being forced to grow up too soon.
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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