{"product_id":"tranny-by-laura-jane-grace","title":"Tranny by Laura Jane Grace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self. It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager, armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a headful of anarchist politics, landed on a riff. She formed Against Me! and rocketed the band from its scrappy beginnings-banging on a drum kit made of pickle buckets-to a major-label powerhouse that critics have called this generation's The Clash.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince its inception in 1997, Against Me! has been one of punk's most influential modern bands, but also one of its most divisive. With every notch the four-piece climbed in their career, they gained new fans while infuriating their old ones. They suffered legal woes, a revolving door of drummers, and a horde of angry, militant punks who called them \"sellouts\" and tried to sabotage their shows at every turn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut underneath the public turmoil, something much greater occupied Grace - a secret kept for 30 years, only acknowledged in the scrawled-out pages of personal journals and hidden in lyrics. Through a troubled childhood, delinquency, and struggles with drugs, she was on a punishing search for identity. Not until May of 2012 did a Rolling Stone profile finally reveal it: she is trans, and would from then on be living as a woman under the name Laura Jane Grace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTranny is the intimate story of Against Me!'s enigmatic founder, weaving the narrative of the band's history, as well as Grace's, with dozens of never-before-seen entries from the piles of journals Grace kept. More than a typical music memoir about sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-although it certainly has plenty of that - Tranny is an inside look at one of the most remarkable stories in the history of rock.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ 320 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32004292083797,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/products\/9780316264372.jpg?v=1586470373","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/tranny-by-laura-jane-grace","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}