{"product_id":"the-dad-rock-that-made-me-a-woman-hardcover","title":"The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNiko Stratis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When Wilco's 2007 album \u003ci\u003eSky Blue Sky\u003c\/i\u003e was infamously criticized as \"dad rock,\" Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad's glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her hypermasculine environment, Stratis found an unlikely lifeline amid dad rock's emotionally open and honest music. Listening to dad rock, Stratis could access worlds beyond her own and imagine a path forward. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In taut, searing essays rendered in propulsive and unguarded prose, Stratis delves into the emotional core of bands like Wilco and The National, telling her story through the dad rock that accompanied her along the way. She found footing in Michael Stipe's allusions to queer longing, Radiohead's embrace of unknowability, and Bruce Springsteen's very trans desire to \"change my clothes my hair my face\"--and she found in artists like Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten that the label transcends gender. A love letter to the music that saves us and a tribute to dads like Stratis's own who embody the tenderness at the genre's heart, \u003ci\u003eThe Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman\u003c\/i\u003e rejoices in music unafraid to bare its soul. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Niko Stratis is an award-winning writer from Toronto by way of the Yukon, where she spent years working as a journeyman glazier before coming out as trans in her thirties and being forced to abandon her previous line of work. Her writing has appeared in publications like \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e and more. She's a Cancer, and a former smoker. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63105574764893,"sku":"9781477331484","price":37.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1025\/5558\/2813\/files\/vFJNtlRRm59781477331484.webp?v=1768405873","url":"https:\/\/novellybooks.com\/products\/the-dad-rock-that-made-me-a-woman-hardcover","provider":"Novelly Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}