![]() And I would write there until 6 or 7 at night. Sara Quin: I would go every day around 9. Here, Tegan and Sara discuss queer narratives, dropping acid, and revisiting their teenage selves. It’s a book that, like their music, makes a reader feel almost too much-which is also just enough. It’s punctuated by acid trips, sneaking out to raves, horrendous fights with parents and each other. It’s anchored by friendships, which bleed into agonized romances as both sisters wrestle with their queerness. Sara kept a file folder for each grade full of distinct stories, just like she keeps a folder full of songs in progress.) The result is a first-person memoir that alternates between both sisters’ perspectives, hurling the reader back into the past with stories so excruciating and immediate that they could only have occurred in high school. Tegan frequently read portions of the text out loud. (It wasn’t, they told me, much different from songwriting. It’s just me every day walking through the library and sitting down.”įor two musicians who carry out their creative process largely in solitude, book writing came naturally. “I was joking with my girlfriend that I’m going to get the security-camera footage to prove that we didn’t use a ghostwriter. “I went five days a week for seven or eight months,” she told me. (One friend contributed more than 50 notes they’d passed back and forth.) Sara took up residence at a local library in L.A. They asked high school friends, many of whom they’re still close with, for interviews and input. They mined old photos and VHS tapes of songs they wrote and recorded as teenagers. So, iconic musicians Tegan and Sara began to put together the story of their high school experience in suburban Calgary as told in chunks: grades 10, 11, and 12. Iconic musicians Tegan and Sara weren’t always icons, or rockstars, or musicians, or successful, or happy, or out.” I think the more we wrote the more we were like, Christ, this story really needs to get told. We don’t often hear queer voices tell stories. “We don’t often hear from women in the music business. “We don’t often hear young women’s stories,” Tegan said. It’s a redemption story.” Moreover, they felt, it was a story that was underrepresented. “We started as dirtbags taking drugs, and we ended with a record deal. “Sara was like, we should write about high school,” Tegan Quin, her twin sister, told me in early September, about a month before their book, High School, out tomorrow from MCD, was slated for release. The inspiration for a memoir more or less popped into Sara Quin’s head fully formed.
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