Daughter of the Drunk at the Bar is the memoir of a girl growing up in the 1980’s enduring both neglect, and the oppression of an alcoholic father. Both tender and tough, Janie makes her way through childhood hiding what is going on in her family and cherishing the moments when nothing is wrong.

This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records […]