{"product_id":"the-dad-rock-that-made-me-a-woman-1","title":"The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003ePreviously enjoyed book: Very good condition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Niko Stratis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__overview-column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Wilco’s 2007 album\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSky Blue Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas infamously criticized as “dad rock,” Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad’s glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her hypermasculine environment, Stratis found an unlikely lifeline amid dad rock’s emotionally open and honest music. Listening to dad rock, Stratis could access worlds beyond her own and imagine a path forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__overview-column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn taut, searing essays rendered in propulsive and unguarded prose, Stratis delves into the emotional core of bands like Wilco and The National, telling her story through the dad rock that accompanied her along the way. She found footing in Michael Stipe’s allusions to queer longing, Radiohead’s embrace of unknowability, and Bruce Springsteen’s very trans desire to “change my clothes my hair my face”—and she found in artists like Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten that the label transcends gender. A love letter to the music that saves us and a tribute to dads like Stratis’s own who embody the tenderness at the genre’s heart,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erejoices in music unafraid to bare its soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Librairie Résonance Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67754115104900,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0950\/9801\/1780\/files\/FDFB5FFF-60D6-4BD5-9B59-A9FA8A9A77BA.jpg?v=1792516082","url":"https:\/\/librairieresonance.com\/products\/the-dad-rock-that-made-me-a-woman-1","provider":"Librairie Résonance Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}