'Carrie tells her story with mesmerizing, often hilarious, honesty, reminding us that life is just a million bad outfits, nervous phone calls, sleepless nights, and clumsy kisses, and yet all of this adds up to something tremendous - staggering, actually. I wept' Miranda July'So many times while reading this book I screamed "Yes!" inside. You can feel Carrie's visceral guitar-swirling energy on every page. An amazing writer' Kim Gordon'She can play, but man, can Carrie Brownstein write . . . Her blazing memoir is lit by the same flair for adventure, fearless inquiry, and honesty that mark her gritty licks and trenchant vocals' Elle'Heartfelt and disarmingly honest, Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl is far from a regular tale of rock'n'roll dissolution. It is, instead, a tale of a young woman with a complex interior life struggling to grow up and find her identity . . . It is the story of her struggle to belong' Independent on Sunday'[A] glorious, grungy paean to losing yourself in music' Sarra Manning, Red