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ZuZu’s Petals Singer/Guitarist Diagnosed With Multiple Sclerosis
Petal Pusher has much to recommend it, no the fewest of which namely Lindeens book. An English Major by the U of Wisconsin, she went aboard to get MFA by Minnesota (post-rock n roll) and immediately teaches memoir classes at Minneapolis vaunted scholastic hub, The Loft. It shows.
Lindeen’s Writing Style & Structure Benefit Petal Pusher
Lindeen’s Insight, Humor Add Layers to Memoir
From the late 1980s through the Mid-90s Laurie Lindeen fronted the Minneapolis-based all-girl band ZuZus Petals (the aboriginal band by that label, by the way, now thatthere are several). The Madison, Wisconsin countryman founded ZZP with restricted experience, few connections [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], virtually as a pipedream. Her 2008 memoir Petal Pusher: A Rock N Roll Cinderella Story is her story of those years.
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Beyond the humor, however, Lindeen shows real insight as to what this period has meant in the bigger picture of her life. That, of way, is one of the benefits of a memoir: the authors ability to look back and border what all these stories average. Near the end of Petal Pusher, Lindeen does just this, but she does it within the environment of the story, as she relates how the stagethe literal platform above which she and the girls rockedchanged fashion over the years, as the band gained an spectators, recorded, toured, and eventually tired of the lifestyle.
Its that type of humor that counters what might otherwise be a frustratingly melancholy story. Having to constantly fret almost her MS (alternatively attempting to ignore it), dealing with a crumbling home life, going through a difficult abortion, on top of the dirty realities of her musical dream-come-true, it seems only humor and a survivor mentality will suffice.
Lindeen, Laurie. Petal Pusher: A Rock ‘N’ Roll Cinderella Story [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 2008 Atria Books, 320 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7432-9232-0.
The authors portrayal of the gritty life on the road leaves the reader ambition because a shower: Its nine in the morning…here I stand with a low brandy hangover, horrid breath, bloodshot eyes caked with yesterdays black component, and a rats nest of cilia. Im in a rock n roll band.
More than fair another rock memoir, Petal Pusher is as much a coming-of-age and a coming-to-terms article, 1 propelled along at the authors having been analyzed with MS (Multiple Sclerosis) just for she starts her band, and this story. Indeed, it is this diagnosis that seems to acknowledge Lindeen permission to work out and live her rock n roll nightmare.
Besides her easy-flowing, down-to-earth style, and her healthy dosage of humor (necessary for a life on the road with an indie band), Lindeen has structured her tale in part of that gives the reader an uncommon vantage point from which to outlook what she experienced. Rather than crashing up her disease, her band, her personal life into divide chapters, they are intermingled realistically, the way she lived it, addition a magnificent deal to the feel of Lindeens growing frustration.
Its insight favor this [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an surplus layer added to her funny and behind-the-scenes stories, and her unflinching honesty, that sets Laurie Lindeens Petal Pusher: A Rock ‘n’ Roll Cinderella Story apart from additional rock memoirs. This memoir rocks.