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THERE IS PLENTY that Hanna didn’t need to recount within the e book. She was not desirous to relitigate the Courtney Love incident, however “if Santa got here up and hit you with a baseball bat, you’d need to put it in your autobiography,” she mentioned. She titled her memoir “Rebel Girl” with reluctance; it feels so near “riot grrrl,” and she or he stays conflicted about being overemphasized in that huge and leaderless motion.
Also, she had by no means earlier than spoken publicly about being a mom. “I didn’t need to get requested work-life steadiness questions at each single interview,” she mentioned. Motherhood, like victimhood, was one other creative pigeonhole she hoped to keep away from. But “Rebel Girl” is a e book about her life, and Julius is an enormous a part of it. “I requested him if he needed to be in it. And he was like, I’m going to be mad if I’m not,” she mentioned.
Hanna was talking in entrance of a coffee desk piled with books, however the memoir is just not one among them. She doesn’t need Julius to select one up and begin studying. “He understands that some issues occurred to mother that, you realize, made her jumpy,” she mentioned. He, too, has realized to pull his ft on the carpet earlier than he enters a room.
On the difficulty of work-life steadiness, “I’m the asshole dude who’s like, My artwork comes first,” she mentioned. She credit Horovitz with shouldering caretaking duties — for his or her son, but additionally for Hanna, whereas she battled Lyme illness (which she paperwork within the e book), and as she handled the fallout of excavating her life.
In her 50s, music has opened up new alternatives for Hanna. “It’s actually nice proper now to be a musician as a result of I’m getting the form of respect I by no means bought in my 20s and 30s,” she mentioned. She has set boundaries for herself, too: “I’m not continuously being burdened by, like, trauma-bonding with individuals who I don’t even know.” And the e book, maybe, will assist to alleviate among the strain on her physique. She doesn’t have to at all times be exhibiting up and explaining herself.
“Now I might be like: It’s within the e book, it’s within the e book, it’s within the e book.”
