Publish Date |
October 06, 2020 |
Category |
Biography & Autobiography / Music Biography & Autobiography / LGBTQ+ |
Price |
$22.00 |
ISBN: 9781982112677
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: October 06, 2020
“Complexly intimate, smartly crafted, and packing a subtle emotional wallop. . . . A quietly heroic origin story.”
— Rolling Stone“One of the most interesting and brave coming-of-age stories I have read in many years. 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 a book about how music saves people, how music gives us a voice and a reason to keep going.”
— JANN ARDEN, singer-songwriter and author of Feeding My Mother “To 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, the kind of empathetic education our society is starved for.”
— K.D. LANG, singer and songwriter“What a gift to read the coming-of-age story of the brilliant Tegan and Sara. High School gives us a glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of both sisters as individuals and an evolving band. Their vulnerability, honesty and compassion burst through, and I know will make countless people feel less alone. It 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. Oh what I would have done to have this book in high school. I am endlessly grateful to Tegan and Sara for giving so much to this world.”
— ELLIOT PAGE, actor and producer“It 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 speak 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.”
— BUSY PHILIPPS, actor and author of This Will Only Hurt a Little“A genius memoir. 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 a completely original, utterly gripping, gorgeously written, and captivating memoir that must be read. Tegan and Sara are bold, brilliant storytellers. High School is the freshest, most beautiful and fearlessly powerful coming-of-age memoir.”
— AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS, New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Toil & Trouble“Tegan and Sara have pulled back the curtain on a formative chapter in their lives and offer a gloriously dizzying, richly observed account of how they became who they are today and what inspired the music we’ve come to know and love. Funny, frank, and so very cool, High School is basically the teenage best friend I always wanted growing up.”
— DAN LEVY, actor, writer, and producer“Intense, vulnerable, and life-affirming—everything I’m looking for! 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.”
— ABBI JACOBSON, comedian and author of I Might Regret This“Candid, tender, courageously honest, and heartbreakingly familiar; I could see myself and my own experience reflected in these stories, more so than in anything else I’ve ever read. Reading this book moved me deeply.”
— JULIEN BAKER, singer and songwriter“Deeply moving, relatable. . . . High School never holds back from the absolute authenticity Tegan and Sara have become known for. I never wanted the book to end.”
— CLEA DUVALL, actor and writer