Songs Only You Know: A Memoirand#160;plunges us into the Detroit hardcore punk scene with eighteen-year-old Sean and spans a dark decade during which his father succumbs to crack addiction, his younger sister spirals into a fatal depression, and his sense of home crumbles. Seanand#39;s salvation is music, and the many eccentrics and outsiders he befriends as frontman of a bandand#160;once referred to byand#160;Spin Magazineand#160;as andquot;an art-core mindfuck.andquot; Seanand#39;s prose whips from mordantly funny to searingly honest while offering an unflinching look at a family in crisis, low-rent music subculture, and the hard-earned identity of its author. A story of young manhood that deserves a place alongside Tobias Wolff'sand#160;In Pharaoh's Armyand#160;and Nick Flynn'sand#160;Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Songs Only You Knowand#160;is a beautiful, devastating exploration of family, friends, and one young manand#39;s musical dream. It marks the arrival of a fiercely original literary voice.
