The Harder I Fight The More I Love You by Neko Case
Rating = ****

It turns out she writes a book just as well as she writes a song. This memoir is 80% 
focused on her life before any of us knew who she was. Life as a Grammy-nominated 
singer/songwriter is almost treated as an epilogue. That's okay though, because her 
life growing up was grim. She uses the word feral. She was raised, if you can use that 
word, by parents who got married (for a few years) after Neko was conceived in the back 
seat of a car by two high schoolers. They never wanted to be parents, and the job never 
grew on them. It's a grim, sometimes heartbreaking, but always entertaining story of 
growing up solo, more or less, and not really knowing yourself until well past the date 
that is expected of us in the US.