The harder I fight the more I love you : a memoir
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Grand Central, 2025.
Physical Description
xi, 271 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"Neko Case has long been revered as one of music's most influential artists, whose authenticity, lyrical storytelling, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics, musicians, and lifelong fans. In The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl "raised by two dogs and a space heater" in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent. In luminous, sharp-edged prose, Case shows readers what it's like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child, to take refuge in the woods around her home, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music, camaraderie, and shared experience into art. The Harder I Fight The More I Love You is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles we face"--
Contents
- If a Doe and a Tree Had a Baby
- I Make Horses Appear
- The Wake
- Highway to Nespelem
- Neko Case Rm. 16
- Demolition Derby
- Reel to Reel
- Garbage Mountain
- Scum with a Bad Perm
- Rock Show
- Girls Do That
- I Was Just Getting Started as an Adult When ...
- Meet the Del Logs
- Eyes Swiveled Forward
- High, Higher
- Predators
- Changes You Can't See
- Imagine It Into Being
- Out of the Old Ashes
- Enter the Glamor of a Life in Music
- What Lives on the Road
- Things Your Parents Won't Tell You
- Happier Inheritances and Returns
- The Most Tender Love.