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Synopsis
Teenage hell has never been captured with such intense honesty as these actual letters sent in the late ‘80s from a suicidal girl to the singer of her favorite band.
Go Ask Ogre peers into the world of a misfit "cutter" who lives with an abusive mother in the rust belt. A tailspin of suicidal depression and self-injury leads her to write Ogre, front man for the industrial rock band Skinny Puppy. Soon he receives a flood of elaborately illustrated letters and journals filled with Jolene’s most intimate thoughts—from her most painful secrets to hilarious observations and lucid realizations about her life and those around her.
At a concert, Ogre confides to Jolene that he has saved all her letters. Nine years later, a box from Ogre arrives at Jolene’s door. Re-examining the documents, she realizes that writing these letters had saved her life.
Go Ask Ogre compiles Jolene Siana's actual letters, artwork, illustrations, and ephemera into a unique and powerful story of an extremely troubled teen who made it through the worst years of her life, and, through the power of music and art, transformed herself in the process. It is heavily illustrated and full color throughout.
Critical Praise:
"Pure, lucid and engaging...more authentic for a new generation of young women than, say, the 1971 cautionary tale about drugs, Go Ask Alice."—Susan Carpenter, LA Times
"Dark, funny and touching..."—boingboing.net
"Cringingly confessional, persistently desperate, yet often uproariously funny. All rendered and packaged in labor-intensive psychedelic outsider graphic design. An overdue riposte to the bludgeoning morality of the fabricated Go Ask Alice."—Doug Harvey, LA Weekly
"By turns fierce, funny, heartbreaking and wise, Jolene Siana's Go Ask Ogre burns onto the page in an intense collage of words and images that together create a portrait of a gifted young woman fighting to hang on to her own life and choosing an unlikely—but strangely suitable—ally for her battle."—Caroline Kettlewell, author of Skin Game
"Amidst the cultural and political corruption of the late 1980s, seeking and artistic teens like Jolene Siana found cathartic solace in aggressive and so-called 'morbid' bands like Skinny Puppy. That she persevered with the help of music that parents, preachers, and politicians condemned, but rarely tried to understand, is a moving lesson."—Alan Rapp, editor of The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon and Dan Eldon: The Art of Life
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From the Publisher
Awards and Recognition for Go Ask Ogre:
2006 INDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHERS AWARD FINALIST, Best Juvenile/Teen Young Adult Non-fiction
OFFICIAL SELECTION: New York Public Library's 2006 "Books of the Teen Age"
YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) 2005 "Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers" Award Nominee
Did you know...
Go Ask Ogre features Jolene’s accounts of personal interaction with several alternative heroes from the ‘80s—including bailing Skinny Puppy out of jail, attending a slumber party with punk legends The Descendents, getting a pep talk from the Revolting Cocks, meeting Peter Murphy, and more.
About the Author
Jolene Siana lives in Los Angeles and spends her time writing, painting, photographing people and traveling to Amsterdam every year. Bonnie McLaughlin, MA, MFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Burbank, California, since 1990. She specializes in issues related to relationships, parenting, and recovery from childhood abuses.
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- PublisherProcess
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0976082217
- ISBN 13 9780976082217
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages180
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