Songs Only You Know: A Memoir

Songs Only You Know: A Memoir plunges listeners into the Detroit hardcore punk scene with eighteen-year-old Sean and spans a dark decade during which his father succumbs to crack addiction, his younger sister spirals into a fatal depression, and his sense of home crumbles. Sean¿s salvation is music, as well as the many eccentrics and outsiders he befriends as front man of a band once referred to by Spin magazine as ¿an art-core mindfuck.¿ Sean¿s prose whips from mordantly funny to searingly honest while offering an unflinching look at a family in crisis, low-rent music subculture, and the hard-earned identity of its author. A story of young manhood that deserves a place alongside Tobias Wolff¿s In Pharaoh¿s Army and Nick Flynn¿s Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Songs Only You Know is a beautiful, devastating exploration of family, friends, and one young man¿s musical dream. It marks the arrival of a fiercely original literary voice.