I Wanna be Your Joey Ramone

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2008
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A raw, edgy, emotional novel about growing up punk and living to tell.

The Clash. Social Distortion. Dead Kennedys. Patti Smith. The Ramones.

Punk rock is in Emily Black's blood. Her mother, Louisa, hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was four months old and never came back. Now Emily's all grown up with a punk band of her own, determined to find the tune that will bring her mother home. Because if Louisa really is following the music, shouldn't it lead her right back to Emily?

Synopsis

A raw, edgy, emotional novel about growing up punk and living to tell.

The Clash. Social Distortion. Dead Kennedys. Patti Smith. The Ramones.

Punk rock is in Emily Black's blood. Her mother, Louisa, hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was four months old and never came back. Now Emily's all grown up with a punk band of her own, determined to find the tune that will bring her mother home. Because if Louisa really is following the music, shouldn't it lead her right back to Emily?

$21.31

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Mtv Books
Published: 08 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 1416562699
ISBN 13: 9781416562696

Media Reviews

Kuehnert's love of music is apparent on every page in this powerful and moving story. Her fresh voice makes this novel stand out in the genre, and she writes as authentically about coming of age as she does punk rock. -- Charles R. Cross, New York Times bestselling author of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
Teeth. Punk. Combat boots. Attitude. Feminism. Family. Girls with guitars. Relationships that jack you up. Sharp things of the not-good kind. Friendships. Love.... It's all here; it's all pure and real. -- Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of Ink Exchange
A fierce and wild ride. -- Laura Wiess, author of Such a Pretty Girl
A wonderfully written andevocative story of a mother and daughter parted by circumstance and joined by music. I heartily recommend it. -- Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting

Author Bio

Stephanie Kuehnert got her start writing bad poetry and good punk rock feminist 'zines, one of which was featured in the book Zine Scene by Francesca Lia Block and Hillary Carlip. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. Stephanie's short stories have been published in Hair Trigger, f6 magazine and on inkstains.org. Her interviews and essays have appeared in No Touching magazine, Writer's Ask, on Virginia Quarterly Review's website, and on freshyarn.com.