Rememberings

From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinad OConnor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs, struggles with illness, and of the enduring power of song. Blessed with a singular voice and a fiery temperament, Sinad OConnor rose to massive fame in the late 1980s and 1990s with a string of gold records. By the time she was twenty, she was world-famousliving a rock-star life out loud. From her trademark shaved head to her 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live when she tore up Pope John Paul IIs photograph, Sinad has fascinated and outraged millions. In Rememberings, OConnor recounts her painful tale of growing up in Dublin in a dysfunctional, abusive household. Inspired by a brothers Bob Dylan records, she escaped into music. She relates her early forays with local Irish bands; we see Sinad completing her first album while eight months pregnant, hanging with Rastas in the East Village, and soaring to unimaginable popularity with her cover of Princes Nothing Compares 2 U. Intimate, replete with candid anecdotes and told in a singular form true to her unconventional career, Sinads memoir is a remarkable chronicle of an enduring and influential artist.