A review by jainabee
Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl by Mercy Fontenot

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

5.0

Hilarious, harrowing and rigorously honest. Epicenter reporting from many of the most exciting music scenes of the past 55 years. Not for the faint of heart or stomach. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Vomit, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Sexism, Racism, Stalking, and Alcoholism

Um, Miss Mercy was a shameless and unapologetic hardcore character at the center of many music scenes from the 60s until her death in the 21st Century. Read at own risk.