Glory Guitars, Gogo Germaine
Glory Guitars, Gogo Germaine
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Glory Guitars
Memoir of a '90s Teenage Punk Rock Grrrl

Author: Gogo Germaine

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/11/2022

Synopsis

Ensconced in the black hole between childhood and adulthood, a glorious degenerate-grade freedom endures. A rebellion from respectability. An anathema to normalcy. It is the type of defiance that’s hopeful―hurt by the world but looking to reconcile it.Enter Gogo Germaine and her girl gang of delinquents.As manic teens in the ’90s punk scene, they engage in a vivid spectrum of misbehavior―from truancy to tattoos to trespassing. Here, in the underbelly of adolescence, music is God and the rest is a rush of nihilism. Gogo and her friends stumble through sound and fury into questionable firsts at varying degrees of sobriety.Many of us blunder through that black hole. It is a point of universal convergence, manifested by divergent experiences. Gogo’s rebellion may look different from yours, but the soaring highs and visceral lows will be familiar.

About Gogo Germaine

Gogo Germaine is a neurodiverse girl in a ’90s suburban world, born with a lollipop-swirl brain, goth-kitty heart, and lightning-bolt soul. She won the spelling bee and the D.A.R.E. essay contest in the sixth grade. She was voted “Most Unique” in the seventh grade. It was all downhill from there. The rest was the stuff of hysterical after-school specials: stealing cigs, shotgunning PBRs, snorting cocaine, sneaking punk boys into her pink bedroom, and listening to tinny car stereo tunes while glaring into the sun like a muscle-shirt dad.

About Carrington MacDuffie

Carrington MacDuffie is a voice actor and recording artist who has narrated over two hundred audiobooks, received numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards, and has been a frequent finalist for the Audie Award, including for her original audiobook, Many Things Invisible. Alongside her narration work, she has released a new album of original songs, Only an Angel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin

Even having been a part of the punk rock scene with lots of friends in Fort Collins and experiencing lots of shows at The Starlight, I had a hard time with this book. It needed some serious editing. I wanted to like it a lot more than I did, but I think it just came across too much as a random colle......more

Goodreads review by Matty

Picked this up on a whim while wandering around the book fair at AWP '23. I got to talking to the publisher at University of Hell, Greg, about punk music and writing about all the things involved with it, from coming of age listening to punk music to engaging with it as members of bands, touring art......more

Goodreads review by James

Heard about this on the Jon of All Trades Podcast and knew it'd be a must-read for me, as a fellow 90's punk rock kid in Colorado. However, my similarities to the author pretty much stop there, because her memoir describes a coming-of-age that involved an astonishing amount of risky, illicit behavio......more

Goodreads review by Aaron

I'm skeptical when it comes to autobiographies from anyone under 50 years old, but the punk rock topic and from a town I lived in for many years had me interested. The writing is crisp, and tactile. Germaine takes the reader on a synesthesia experience and jumping topics with side tangents including......more

Goodreads review by MsMaddyMax

I wanted to love this book and the author does a good job of capturing teenage emotions & motivations. But it was so far removed from my '90s punk rock experience (DC area) and was almost entirely about sex and drugs. Music was limited to the headings which were fun, but very disappointing that musi......more

Quotes

“So good it hurts…Witty, gritty, and flat-out addictive.” Emily France, author of Zen and Gone

“A synesthetic fireball of beauty, a gut punch in every line…Germaine has recreated the world of young, alternative women of the ’90s and their bonds with a grace and fury that it’s never had until now.” Alex DiFrancesco, author of All City

“With grit, heart, and punk spark, Glory Guitars is a seething anthem of teenage sex and explosive youth. Gogo Germaine is a voice of her generation, a shriek of darkness and life you never knew you needed but won’t ever forget.” Jason Heller, author of Strange Stars

“A vulnerability manifesto that refuses to be ignored…Heartbreaking and hilarious, all with the perfect soundtrack of sorrow and rage to boot, Germaine is brilliant at masterminding the art of storytelling.”  Hillary Leftwich, author of Aura, a Memoir

“A multisensory, tilt-a-whirl fun house adventure of guiltless teenage rebellion that formerly puritanical readers can live vicariously through, retroactively experiencing every school-ditch drunken escapade.” Amanda E. K., author of The Risk It Takes to Bloom

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