Laura Jane Grace is a transgender musician best known as the founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me!. Since coming out as transgender in a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, she has become an outspoken advocate for transgender awareness. She has a daughter and lives in Chicago.Dan Ozzi is a New York-based writer and has served as the editor of VICE's music site, Noisey
Laura Jane Grace shows great bravery diving into every detail of a
story seldom told, with the advantage of having kept journals
documenting everything she went through, from childhood to the
beginnings of her band. Capturing the pain and struggle, self-doubt
and lack of support she experienced, Grace provides a valuable
starting point for a conversation to broaden the understanding of,
and empathy for, trans people.
*Joan Jett, Billboard's 100 Greatest Music Books of All Time*
An ambassador for the gender revolution currently sweeping through
public restroom policy and National Geographic covers [and] a
potent tool for empathy that hasn't quite existed in pop
culture....Grace and co-writer Dan Ozzi spin green room drama and
rock star recklessness into a gem of a rock bio that belongs on a
shelf alongside Hammer of the Gods and Get in the Van.
*Paste Magazine, Best Nonfiction Books of 2016*
A full-length tell-all about Grace's lifelong journey to
discovering, accepting, and at last publicly acknowledging her true
identity....[told] with daring candor...the memoir establishes her
as at once a transgender icon and a modern day heroine.
*Harper's Bazaar, Best Books of November*
A savagely candid transgender memoir, and thus far, the only
quintessential text regarding Against Me!--one of the most
significant punk bands of the aughts and onward. Without a smidgen
of sarcasm, I would highly recommend the book to your grandmother,
even if she is afraid of transpeople and can't name three Clash
songs.
*Esquire*
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