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Macmillan
June 2011
On Sale: June 7, 2011
256 pages
ISBN: 0865479151
EAN: 9780865479159
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In the wickedly bittersweet and hilarious You Must Go and
Win, the Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her
bizarre journey through the indie rock world, from
disastrous Craigslist auditions with sketchy producers to
catching fleas in a Williamsburg sublet. But Simone offers
more than down-and-out tales of her time as a struggling
musician: she has a rapier wit, slashing and burning her way
through the absurdities of life, while offering surprising
and poignant insights into the burdens of family
expectations and the nature of ambition, the temptations of
religion and the lure of a mythical Russian home. Wavering
between embracing and fleeing her outsized and nebulous
dreams of stardom, Simone confronts her Russian past when
she falls in love with the music of Yanka Dyagileva, a
Soviet singer who tragically died young; hits the road with
her childhood friend who is dead set on becoming an “icon”;
and battles male strippers in Siberia. Hailed as “the perfect storm of creative talent” (USA
Today), Simone is poised to win over readers of David Rakoff
and Sarah Vowell with her irresistibly funny and charming
literary debut.
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