Songs Only You Know: A Memoir
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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.
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Sean Madigan Hoen. (2014). Songs Only You Know: A Memoir. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Sean Madigan Hoen. 2014. Songs Only You Know: A Memoir. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Sean Madigan Hoen, Songs Only You Know: A Memoir. Blackstone Publishing, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Sean Madigan Hoen. Songs Only You Know: A Memoir. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2014.
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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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In this overlong memoir, Hoen tells of growing up in and outside of Detroit with a crack-smoking father, a helpless but stoic mother, and a painfully shy and desperately-seeking-meaning-in-life sister. Hoen channels his own frustration into playing in a punk music band. Weaving stories of the band’s life with his family life, he paints a now all-too-typical tale of a family going down in flames. Music sort of saves him, though: “With every traveled mile I sensed a mythology in the making, a history I imagined musicologists discussing years later.” Eventually, Hoen comes to himself, though not before losing himself again: “To achieve self-invention, you first evacuate the truest parts of yourself—they were slipping from me, connected only by a fear of losing touch completely.” In the end, what starts as a promising read, loses its rhythm.
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