A review by fallonclark
Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

I hadn’t even heard of Sonic Youth until the band came up in conversation several years ago. The group was formed in 1981, before I was born, and while my parents were rock-and-roll lovers, they didn’t get into the more new-wavey spheres of the rock space. So Kim Gordon, as a musician and an artist, wasn’t even on my radar. But in early July when I went to my local library looking for memoirs and biographies by or about rock-and-roll musicians, Girl In A Band was there on the shelf staring at me.

Sometimes, the right book finds us, and Kim’s memoir found me at just the right moment. It didn’t matter that I wasn’t a Sonic Youth superfan. Didn’t matter that I didn’t know Gordon or Thurston, had no idea they were seen as a rocker power couple, had no idea, really, what I’d find in these 300-odd pages. What I found, though, was inspiration, raw and emotional and honest inspiration. 

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