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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
Carrie Brownstein · 2015 · 244 pages
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one of the most important movements in rock history. This book 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
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Kurt Vile
“Man, I love her as a person and as a badass musician and I really love her in Portlandia on the TV. She’s a totally great actress but I lovingly call her a non-actress, you know, because she acts like herself, she’s very laid back. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl shows how great of a writer she is. So direct and smartly done, in the very beginning she talks about nostalgia, like listening to a nostalgic song and how it makes your insides tingle, then you show it to your friends and expect them to have the same reaction but they very rarely do. The way she broke up with the band [Sleater-Kinney] is unbelievable. Not to give away the whole book, but how she repeatedly punches herself in face, that’s basically the end of the band. [Laughs] While she had shingles nonetheless.”↗
