This account of the pains and pleasures of dirtbag queer-girl adolescence is everything you could want from a memoir: honest and hilarious, dishy and sweet, smart and self-aware and utterly charming. What a gift to get this view of Tegan and Sara as sisters, as friends, and as artistic collaborators, as they were becoming musical icons, and-more importantly-themselves. - Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties What a gift to read the coming of age story of the brilliant Tegan and Sara . HIGH SCHOOL gives us a glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of both sisters as individuals and an evolving band. Their vulnerability, honesty and compassion, bursts through, and I know will make countless people feel less alone . It is so important for the LGBTQ+ community to have memoirs like this to be able to recognize themselves and be inspired to follow their truth . Oh what I would have done to have this book in high school . I am endlessly grateful to Tegan and Sara for giving so much to this world.
- Ellen PageIt should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever listened to a song by Tegan and Sara, that while not only are they able to convey the raw and complex emotions of the high school experience, the aimlessness of suburban life and the exhilaration of finding your way out, they also speak universal truths about intimacy between families and sisters, friends and lovers. They've captured a time and a place so perfectly, I can't exactly be sure that I wasn't there - Busy Philipps Intense, vulnerable and life-affirming . Tegan and Sara take us back through their whirlwind journey, densely packed with the intricate complications and the envious, unspoken connection of growing up an identical twin - Abbi Jacobson A genius memoir . Tegan and Sara are massively gifted songwriters, so it shouldn't have shocked me like it did. There's simply nothing like it. It's a completely original, utterly gripping, gorgeously written and captivating memoir that must be read . Tegan and Sara are bold, brilliant storytellers. High School is the freshest, most beautiful and fearlessly powerful coming-of-age memoir - Augusten Burroughs, New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Toil & Trouble.