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Mar 29, 2022 · Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is an intimate and revealing narrative of her escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue.
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is a 2015 memoir by Carrie Brownstein, a member of the band Sleater-Kinney. Named for one of her lyrics, the book is about her life in and around music. The book starts with her as a hyper-performative young nerd who runs for vice president of her Washington State elementary school.
Oct 28, 2015 · “Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl,” Ms. Brownstein’s new book, named for one of her lyrics, is about her life in and around music. In the vast library of recent rock memoirs — just listing...
HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL is an intimate and revealing narrative of her escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue.
- Carrie Brownstein
- October 27, 2015
Oct 27, 2015 · First-class account of the life and times of an essential riot grrrl and the band she helped create. In this debut memoir, Brownstein, co-founder of the iconic punk band Sleater-Kinney, traces her evolution from the daughter of a secure but secretly unhappy home—closeted gay father, anorexic mother—to a gawky teenage rock fan and ...
- Kirkus Reviews
Oct 30, 2015 · Carrie Brownstein may be the most badass chick on the block, but Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl reveals that she’s also one of us: awkward, insecure, left out, secretly sad, scarred from...
Nov 20, 2015 · The rock critics obsessively described Sleater-Kinney as “girl band,” a label they kicked against repeatedly.
