Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Before Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein was the guitarist of Sleater-Kinney, one of the essential bands of American punk. Her memoir is about the unstable family she came from, the hunger that pushed her onto stages, and what it costs to make a band the centre of your identity. Unsentimental about fame and very good on music itself. It was the first Our Shared Shelf pick chosen by member vote, announced by Emma Watson in July 2016.