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This was not a Sonic Youth memoir. It’s a Kim Gordon memoir. There seems to be some sort of divide among the two-star & three-star raters. Some rather Kim focus on the Sonic Youth years, while others complained she wasn’t delving enough into her childhood & Manhattan art scene years. Some complained she was being too harsh on people like Lana Del Ray or Billy Corgan. Others said she wasn’t being hard enough. Well, I liked her honesty. I liked the feminism inclusions. The title of the book is "girl in a band" for a reason. She's sick of being asked "What's it like being a girl in a band?" She wants more women in rock & we as readers agree.

Or some are upset that Kim could have been just writing this out of anger at her ex husband Thurston Moore for cheating on her, & how crude is that, & how bitter is she? I really don’t agree because we only get a little information on that toward the end. Also because you have people complaining there isn’t enough about the break up. But even if she was writing it from a bitter place, so what? Writers write about things that come from angry places all the time.

Instead, let me tell you what this memoir is. It’s a look inside her damn life. Wow, surprise. I think it’s well proportioned & incredibly interesting. From her childhood to the Manhattan art scene. From LA life as a girl to Northhampton motherhood.

It's a helluva lot better than some other musician memoirs I've read.