![]() It follows both women–Emily and Louisa–as they both try to deal with their separation, with never having known each other. ![]() I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone is a brilliant first novel about music and life and love and family and friendship and growing up. And so Emily and her band, She Laughs, stop being spectators and start actually playing the music, hoping all the while that it will bring her mother back to her, not knowing the reasons Louisa left are far deeper and more complicated than what she’s been told. When she got older, Emily figured the only way to bring Louisa home, if she were following the music, was to be the next great thing. They listened to records and he taught her to play the guitar, and when she got to be old enough, Emily and her best friend Regan, spent every night they could at a local club where they heard great music (and did other things that her father would have stopped if he’d known about them). Her father has always told her that Louisa left to follow the music, to find the next great thing. ![]() Her mother, Louisa, left Emily and her father, Michael, when Emily was an infant. ![]() ![]() Stephanie Kuehnert’s debut novel, I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone, is a painfully honest, raw, heart-wrenching story about a mother who is running from guilt and a daughter who just wants to bring her home.Įmily Black has grown up without a mother. ![]()
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