{"product_id":"high-school-a-memoir-9780349011981","title":"High School A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a nostalgic memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their origin story.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Genius'' Augusten Burroughs, author of \u003ci\u003eRunning with Scissors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A gift'' Elliot Page, actor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Utterly charming'' Carmen Maria Machado, author of \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore they became international musicians and LGBTQ+ icons, twin sisters Sara and Tegan Quin came of age in 90s Canada. They argued relentlessly, skipped school, dropped acid and fell in and out of love - sometimes with their best friends. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne day they found their stepdad''s guitar and their lives changed course forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh School \u003c\/i\u003eis a revelatory joint memoir. It captures two sisters wrestling with their sexual and artistic identities and those breathtaking years when the future seems wondrously possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis account of the pains and pleasures of dirtbag queer-girl adolescence is everything you could want from a memoir: \u003cb\u003ehonest and hilarious, dishy and sweet, smart and self-aware and utterly charming. \u003c\/b\u003eWhat a gift to get this view of Tegan and Sara as sisters, as friends, and as artistic collaborators, as they were becoming musical icons, and-more importantly-themselves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElegant and evocative\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eHigh School \u003c\/i\u003etells their story from 15 to 18 when they first took drugs, got girlfriends and picked up guitars -- Rebecca Nicholson * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat a gift to read the coming of age story of the brilliant Tegan and Sara\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003ci\u003e High School\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of both sisters as individuals and an evolving band. Their vulnerability, honesty and compassion, bursts through, and I know \u003cb\u003ewill make countless people feel less alone\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eIt is so important for the LGBTQ+ community to have memoirs like this to be able to recognize themselves and be inspired to follow their truth\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eOh what I would have done to have this book in high school\u003c\/b\u003e. I am endlessly grateful to Tegan and Sara for giving so much to this world\u003cbr\u003eTo navigate the experiential landscape of high school is always an emotional minefield. To have Tegan and Sara unabashedly share the perspective of young lesbians is a rare and invaluable gift. \u003cb\u003eThe kind of empathetic education our society is starved for\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever listened to a song by Tegan and Sara, that while not only are they able to convey the raw and complex emotions of the high school experience, the aimlessness of suburban life and the exhilaration of finding your way out, they also \u003cb\u003espeak universal truths about intimacy between families and sisters, friends and lovers. They've captured a time and a place so perfectly, I can't exactly be sure that I wasn't there\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntense, vulnerable and life-affirming\u003c\/b\u003e. Tegan and Sara take us back through their whirlwind journey, densely packed with the intricate complications and the envious, unspoken connection of growing up an identical twin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA genius memoir\u003c\/b\u003e. Tegan and Sara are massively gifted songwriters, so it shouldn't have shocked me like it did. There's simply nothing like it. It's \u003cb\u003ea completely original, utterly gripping, gorgeously written and captivating memoir that must be read\u003c\/b\u003e. Tegan and Sara are bold, brilliant storytellers. High School is the freshest, most beautiful and fearlessly powerful coming-of-age memoir\u003cbr\u003eWith their music, Tegan and Sara offer listeners a glimpse at a specific time and place. In High School, they throw the door open and allow readers the opportunity to become fully immersed in their world. Tegan and Sara's stories of first loves, self discovery, and the insights into their relationship with each other are \u003cb\u003edeeply moving and relatable\u003c\/b\u003e. They never hold back from the absolute authenticity they are known for. \u003cb\u003eI never wanted it to end\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHigh school is a drag, but it's also a revelation, a space to craft your identity and, for Tegan and Sara Quin, a destiny-defining place. Tegan and Sara have consolidated first experiences, acid trips, queer loves, and losses in their \u003cb\u003eblistering\u003c\/b\u003e new memoir\u003ci\u003e High School\u003c\/i\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003eA glorious, warts-and-all coming-of-age story\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003eFor music fans and young queer people to hold close\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCandid, tender, courageously honest, and heartbreakingly familiar\u003c\/b\u003e; I could see myself and my own experience reflected in these stories, more so than in anything else I've ever read. \u003cb\u003eReading this book moved me deeply\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh School\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the indisputable fact that \u003cb\u003eTegan and Sara were never just musicians-they are master storytellers\u003c\/b\u003e. In reflecting on that torturous span of time spent agonizing over one's body, friendships, parents, and desires, this book highlights how high school is less of a place or memory but a metaphor for uncertainty, and underlines the salvation that can only be found in music. \u003ci\u003eHigh School\u003c\/i\u003e foreshadows the beginning of a rich and riveting literary career\u003cbr\u003eThis book is \u003cb\u003eone of the most interesting and brave coming-of-age stories I have read in many years\u003c\/b\u003e. Tegan and Sara reveal the confusion, the unraveling of personal truths, the fear, the excitement, the shame and the seclusion that many of us endure as we make our way through the world. This is also \u003cb\u003ea book about how music saves people, how music gives us a voice and a reason to keep going\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the LSD-fueled, wallet-chained, Kurt Cobain-inspired handbook of how to become young, queer rock stars, written by chapter-swapping twins who \u003cb\u003eI wish I had read when I was in high school. This book would have changed everything\u003c\/b\u003e. I recommend reading it under the covers with a flashlight, and hiding it from your mother\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh School \u003c\/i\u003eembodies the singular gift of words leaping off of the page and becoming feelings, rattling around in the hearts and minds of a reader. The truth of nostalgia is that it must have multiple lenses to operate in its most flourishing form. Much like in their music, in this book, the voices of Tegan and Sara are two distinct bodies of water flowing into the same harmonious river, spilling through the echoing hallways of old high schools, through the bedrooms of first heartbreaks, through the old haunts that remind you of your own. This book is \u003cb\u003ea triumph of memory, affection, and engaging writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten with \u003cb\u003epassion and clarity\u003c\/b\u003e in chapters that alternate between sisters, it's at once testimony to the way life seldom turns out as expected - and the strength of an emotional bond unbroken since birth * Q Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA transcendent coming of age story for our times * Q Magazine *","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733638918487,"sku":"9780349011981","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780349011981.jpg?v=1720000970","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/high-school-a-memoir-9780349011981","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}