The indie-pop duo relive their teenage years in raw, vivid detail
of this kind seem to roll through merely as a means of setting up the biographical roots of an artist’s rock star myth. The book opens, adorably, in “grade ten.” They grew up in Calgary, Alberta, during the mid-Nineties, fighting like Ray and Dave Davies, worshipping Nirvana, and going to raves and punk shows. The depictions of aimless, vaguely dangerous, teenage partying are especially well-rendered, like something out of a Hold Steady song.
One day, they come across Bruce’s guitar in a storage nook . They start writing songs, and eventually win a battle-of-the-bands at a local club that leads to a record deal . The emotions that fuel those songs echo the experience that defines the book’s other major theme beyond music: their struggles and revelations as they try to find “first loves” and eventually come out as a gay in a conservative, Western Canadian culture that now seems, in some ways, almost like 50 years ago, not just 20.
There’s a tensely rendered scene at a family event where some male relatives talk about the waitresses at Hooters, and some of the book’s most heartbreaking moments come as they navigate a difficult space where friendships end and relationships might begin. Those explosively detailed depictions of their earliest experiences trying to find girlfriends are worthy of an excellent YA novel, thanks to Tegan or Sara’s unsparingly real, matter-of-fact prose style.
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