The release date for the English version of 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl' by
Carrie Brownstein is Oct 2015. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
An open and very intimate look at life in rock & roll from the pioneer of female punk music at the beginning of the riot-grrrl period.
Carrie Brownstein was already a role model for young women, having been a member of the feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney, before she co-developed and acted in the hugely successful television sitcom Portlandia. The band, renowned for their amazing guitar shredding and their socialist songs against war, traditionalism, and gender stereotypes, was a major player in the early riot- grrrl and indie music movements in the Pacific Northwest.
The very intimate and illuminating account of Brownstein's journey in music—from devoted fan to trailblazing female guitarist to hilarious entertainer and icon in the indie rock community—is found in Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl. Even though Brownstein battled the sexist double standards of the music business, in 2006 she became the only female member of Rolling Stone readers' list of the "25 Most Underrated Guitarists of All-Time." This book, written by a young woman who was part of the underground feminist punk-rock movement that would dominate music and pop culture in the 1990s, vividly depicts what it's like to be a young woman in a rock and roll band.