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A review by rleibrock
Rat Girl: A Memoir by Kristin Hersh
5.0
Kristin Hersh's "Rat Girl" deconstructs the notion of memoir. The book takes place during only one tumultuous year during the singer's life but it manages to cover so much: Bi-polar disorder, her band Throwing Muse's record deal and recording of their first album and the pregnancy and birth of her first child.
If someone wasn't familiar with Hersh or Throwing Muses and picked up this book he or she would probably be confused. Hersh is vague about a lot of the details on things that exist around her so I could see someone feeling slighted--as if she were only telling the smallest slice of the story.
And yet her voice on paper (just as on record) is so vibrant--alternately dark and grim, caustic, sad, happy and very very funny--that I think it's enough to carry any reader along.
I've been a Throwing Muses/Hersh fan since I was 19 and I loved this book for its insight, honesty and, most of all, ability to make me laugh out loud.
If someone wasn't familiar with Hersh or Throwing Muses and picked up this book he or she would probably be confused. Hersh is vague about a lot of the details on things that exist around her so I could see someone feeling slighted--as if she were only telling the smallest slice of the story.
And yet her voice on paper (just as on record) is so vibrant--alternately dark and grim, caustic, sad, happy and very very funny--that I think it's enough to carry any reader along.
I've been a Throwing Muses/Hersh fan since I was 19 and I loved this book for its insight, honesty and, most of all, ability to make me laugh out loud.