Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Learn more about debut author Stephanie Kuehnert A debut like an unforgettable song, you’ll want to read I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone again and again.” “Stephanie Kuehnert writes with dramatic flare and all the right beats, as she spins a story with punk rock lyrics, big dreams, and one girl not afraid to reach out to her lost mother through music, while enduring intense journeys in between. Laura Wiess, author of Such a Pretty Girl Emily, a gutsy, passionate and vulnerable girl, knows exactly what she wants and strides straight into the gritty darkness after it, risking all and pulling no punches, but leaving us with the perfect ending to a fierce and wild ride.” “ I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone is intense, raw and real a powerful and heartbreaking weave of Emily Black’s public dream of making music and the intensely private one of finding her elusive, missing mother. “A wonderfully written and evocative story of a mother and daughter parted by circumstance and joined by music. Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author of Ink Exchange It just is-which is the purest kinda edge. “Some books play at trying to be ‘edgy’ some books try to hit the right notes but Kuehnert’s prose doesn’t notice labels. Cross, New York Times bestselling author of Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain She’s titled the book after a great song by Sleater-Kinney, and both that band, and the iconic Joey Ramone, would be proud of this effort.” Her fresh voice makes this novel stand out in the genre, and she writes as authentically about coming of age as she does punk rock. “Kuehnert’s love of music is apparent on every page in this powerful and moving story. John McNally, author of America’s Report Card “Stephanie Kuehnert has written a sucker-punch of a novel, raw and surprising and visceral, and like the best novelists who write about music, she’ll convince you that a soul can indeed be saved by rock and roll.”
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