i wanna be your joey ramone by stephanie kuehnert

Two months after she disappeared, my dad moved us from our tiny apartment in Chicago to Carlisle, Wisconsin, the small farming town fifteen miles beyond the Illinois border where he and my mother had grown up. My mother left me with my father when I was four months old so she could follow the beginnings of punk rock around the country. The needle skipped and skittered for a few seconds until it found its groove, the first chord scratching its way through the speakers, a catchy chorus reverberating in my ears.

The slap of plastic dust cover against plastic dust cover was so satisfying, but the best moment came when I found the record I wanted, slipped it out of its paper jacket and onto the record player. Sitting on that cold, dirty, painted cement floor in my blue jeans, with the Wisconsin winter creeping through the tired walls and windows of our house, I dug through crates of albums, feeling their perfect square edges poke between my fingers. smog, and the stench of dog piss that the last owner of the house had let permeate the basement to tirelessly search my father's record collection for my next holy grail. I braved my fear of spiders, dust plumes as thick as L.A. Cross,New York Timesbestselling author ofHeavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, 'A wonderfully written andevocative story of a mother and daughter parted by circumstance and joined by music.

Her fresh voice makes this novel stand out in the genre, and she writes as authentically about coming of age as she does punk rock.' - Charles R.

It's all here it's all pure and real.' - Melissa Marr,New York Timesbestselling author ofInk Exchange, 'Kuehnert's love of music is apparent on every page in this powerful and moving story. Cross, New York Times bestselling author of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, 'Teeth. I heartily recommend it.' - Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, 'Kuehnert's love of music is apparent on every page in this powerful and moving story. It's all here it's all pure and real.' - Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of Ink Exchange, 'A wonderfully written andevocative story of a mother and daughter parted by circumstance and joined by music.

I wanna be your joey ramone by stephanie kuehnert