Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

'Carrie tells her story with mesmerizing, often hilarious, honesty, reminding us that life is just a million bad outfits, nervous phone calls, sleepless nights, and clumsy kisses, and yet all of this adds up to something tremendous - staggering, actually. I wept' Miranda July 'So many times while reading this book I screamed "Yes!" inside. You can feel Carrie's visceral guitar-swirling energy on every page. An amazing writer' Kim Gordon 'She can play, but man, can Carrie Brownstein write . . . Her blazing memoir is lit by the same flair for adventure, fearless inquiry, and honesty that mark her gritty licks and trenchant vocals' Elle 'Heartfelt and disarmingly honest, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl is far from a regular tale of rock'n'roll dissolution. It is, instead, a tale of a young woman with a complex interior life struggling to grow up and find her identity . . . It is the story of her struggle to belong' Independent on Sunday '[A] glorious, grungy paean to losing yourself in music' Sarra Manning, Red

Carrie Brownstein