Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir

In this eye-opening memoir, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in 1987 and the wild events that followed: leaving small-town New Hampshire to tour Europe at 18, becoming a teen publisher of fanzines, a teen bride, and a teen prostitute. Spin has called Suckdog's album Drugs Are Nice one of the best of the '90s, and the book includes photos of infamous European shows. Yet the book also tells of how Lisa saw the need for change in 1994, when her baby was born with a chromosomal deletion and his father became violent. With lasting lightness and surprising gravity, Drugs Are Nice is a definitive account of the generation that wanted to break every rule, but also a story of an artist and a mother becoming an adult on her own terms.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Soft Skull
Published: 09/30/2005
ISBN: 9781932360943
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.54w x 0.66d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/24/2005 pg. 49
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2005 pg. 1217