Songs Only You Know, Sean Madigan Hoen
Songs Only You Know, Sean Madigan Hoen
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Songs Only You Know

Author: Sean Madigan Hoen

Narrator: Tristan Morris

Unabridged: 12 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/15/2014


Synopsis

Songs Only You Know: A Memoir plunges listeners 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. Sean's salvation is music, as well as the many eccentrics and outsiders he befriends as front man of a band once referred to by Spin magazine as "an art-core mindfuck." Sean'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's In Pharaoh's Army and Nick Flynn's Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Songs Only You Know is a beautiful, devastating exploration of family, friends, and one young man's musical dream. It marks the arrival of a fiercely original literary voice.

Author Bio

Sean Madigan Hoen
was raised in Dearborn, Michigan, and spent his young adulthood touring and
recording in several Detroit-based music groups. His fiction has appeared in
numerous publications, including BOMB Magazine, where he was
awarded the 2011 Fiction Award. He has taught creative writing at Columbia
University and currently resides in Brooklyn.

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