{"product_id":"9780873519984","title":"I Live Inside: Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland","description":"\u003cp\u003eBabes in Toyland burst onto the Minneapolis music scene in the late 1980s and quickly established itself at the forefront of punk\/alternative rock. The all-female trio featured a shy, seventeen-year-old Jewish teen from the suburbs on bass guitar—an instrument she had never played before joining the band.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the next few years, Michelle Leon lived the rock-and-roll lifestyle—playing live concerts, recording in studios, touring across the United States and Europe, and spending endless hours in stuffy vans, staying in two-star motels, and sleeping on strangers' couches in town after town. The grind and drama of life in the band gradually wore on Leon, however, and a heartbreaking tragedy led her to rethink her commitment to the band and the music scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeon's sensitive, sensory prose puts readers right on stage with Babes in Toyland while also conveying the uncertainty, vulnerability, and courage needed by a girl who never felt like she fit in to somehow find her place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Minnesota Historical Society Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012437950704,"sku":"9780873519984","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780873519984_p0.jpg?v=1763846492","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780873519984","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}