When I Grow Up: A Memoir

by Juliana Hatfield, Rebecca Gibel (Read by)

Overview

By the early nineties, singer-songwriter and former Blake Babies member Juliana Hatfield was in a position most aspiring alternative rockers only dream of: her solo career was taking off. She was on the cover of Spin and Sassy; Ben Stiller directed the video for her song Spin the Bottle from the Reality Bites film soundtrack; she was a featured guest on My So-Called Life. Then, after canceling a European tour to treat severe depression and failing to produce another hit, she spent a decade releasing well-reviewed albums on indie labels and performing in ever-smaller clubs. Eventually, she found herself reading The New Yorker on a filthy couch in the tiny dressing room of a punk club and asked herself Why am I still doing this? No longer willing to play a kid's game by kid's rules, Hatfield resolved to take a year off and experiment with being a civilian. And that year reawakened her creative passion. She resolved to take charge of her career and write the great untapped songs that she knew were still in her. This newfound determination led directly to her eagerly awaited new album, aptly named How to Walk Away, the most energetic, polished, and creative work of her music career.More than a musician's memoir, When I Grow Up is a rich and revealing tour through an extraordinary mind. By turns wryly funny and woundingly sincere, it recounts her best and worst days, the origins of her songs, the source of her woes, and her quest to find purpose in life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662028571
Publisher:	Dreamscape Media
Publication date:	08/25/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 5.04(h) x 1.13(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Juliana Hatfield is a singer-songwriter who came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of the band Blake Babies. Her vocals have been praised as "bewitching" by The New York Times.

Rebecca Gibel is an award-winning stage, television, and voice actress, who has narrated over fifty audiobooks in a wide variety of genres. She has worked across the country at theaters such as Trinity Rep, Cleveland Play House, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Intiman Theatre, and the Arden Theatre Company. She holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MFA in Acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: August 1: Hoboken.

Chapter 2: Vision.

Chapter 3: August 2: Philadelphia.

Chapter 4: In the Woodshed.

Chapter 5: August 3: New York City.

Chapter 6: Angel Girl.

Chapter 7: August 4: North Bergen to Boston.

Chapter 8: The Interview Interview.

Chapter 9: August 5: Cambridge.

Chapter 10: Sassy.

Chapter 11: August 7: Cleveland.

Chapter 12: Big Money.

Chapter 13: August 8: Columbus.

Chapter 14: The Story of "My Sister".

Chapter 15: August 9: Indianapolis.

Chapter 16: Cool Rock Boys.

Chapter 17: August 10: Chicago.

Chapter 18: Guns and Roses and Me.

Chapter 19: August 11: Iowa City.

Chapter 20: My Idol.

Chapter 21: August 12: Minneapolis.

Chapter 22: The Harpsichord.

Chapter 23: August 13: Minneapolis to Kearney.

Chapter 24: Hair and Makeup.

Chapter 25. August 14: Denver.

Chapter 26. August 15: Denver to Wendover.

Chapter 27. Jeff Buckley.

Chapter 28. August 16: Wendover to San Francisco.

Chapter 29. August 17: San Francisco.

Chapter 30. The Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Chapter 31. August 18: San Francisco to Los Angeles.

Chapter 32. August 19: L.A.

Chapter 33. Demons.

Chapter 34. August 20: San Diego.

Chapter 35. Windows.

Chapter 36. August 21: Tucson.

Chapter 37. Begging to Be Dropped.

Chapter 38. August 22: Albuquerque.

Chapter 39. August 23: Albuquerque to Oklahoma City.

Chapter 40. August 24: Lawrence.

Chapter 41. Hunger.

Chapter 42. August 25: St. Louis.

Chapter 43. The Last Leg.

Chapter 44. The Year of No Music.

Chapter 45. How to Walk Away.

Epilogue.