An unblinking, purple bruise of a memoir.

Unfolds in raw, ragged segments. She has always explored difficult subjects, but without the music’s cathartic power and her commanding stage presence, the book can be dark.

Packed with harrowing stories and illuminating revelations.

A raucous, rousing tale about the power of music and activism.

...a timely refresher in resilience, the power of protest art and the tender humanity that we must not lose.

it’s a multiple-threat of a book: a stinging coming-of-age story, a memoir of male violence, a poignant history of how grunge and riot grrrl were propelled from punk houses and art-spaces into the treacherous mainstream.

At times, the text is more of a stream-of-consciousness rendering of chronological events than a structured narrative, a style that is mostly charming but occasionally confusing. An impressively perspicacious memoir from one of feminism’s most influential artists..