Kristin Hersh - RAT GIRL: A Memoir

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Start: 10/14/2010 6:00 pm

Join us for an evening with Kristin Hersh, founder of the cult rock band Throwing Muses. She will read from and sign RAT GIRL, her outrageous memoir of growing up much faster than planned, in this intensely personal and moving account of the pivotal year 1985.

Kristin was just beginning to find her place in the world. After beginning her music career at the age of fourteen, the precocious child of unconventional hippies was enrolled in college while Throwing Muses was getting off the ground amid buzzing rumors of a major label deal.

Then, everything changed. Her emotional troubles were diagnosed as bipolar disorder, and - just after the band was signed - Hersh was processing news of a very different sort: she was pregnant. Suddenly, she found herself wondering whether antidepressants could be mixed with prenatal vitamins, how to balance a guitar on her swollen stomach, and whether a rock band could tour with an infant.

Written in beautifully evocative prose and filled with unforgettable characters.

Kristin Hersh, New Orleans, LA May 20, 2010, photo by Billy O'Connell Kristin Hersh has released more than twenty albums over the course of her career which have sold more than one million copies worldwide. She records solo, as well as with her bands Throwing Muses and 50 FOOT WAVE. She lives in New England and New Orleans.