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GO ASK OGRE PRESS
“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, L.A. Times
“The dozens of letters show an unmistakably teenage voice asking teenage things, but also an intelligent, jarringly lucid evocation of a journey through post-prosperous America and a struggle to find out what it means to be alive.†— Brian Joseph Davis, THIS Magazine
“Dark, funny and touching…†— David Pescovitz, 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, L.A. Weekly
“Emotionally transcendent and eerily personal…riveting…a razor-sharp vignette from one woman’s emotional history.†— Erin Broadley, LA Alternative Press
“Jolene Siana is to be thanked and lauded for many things already in her young career; number one is for rendering Go Ask Alice completely useless.†— Hardcore Ink
“It’s easy to bill this book as a memoir of teen-aged angst and mental illness; but Go Ask Ogre is so much more, and so much better than that. Jolene Siana’s story is one of survival, and of rising out of the depths of a personal hell largely through the power of self-expression. It’s also about the vital role that art can play in our lives, both as audience, and through our own practice of it. It’s sad, funny, truthful, good-hearted and genuinely moving.†— Jaime Nichols, blogcritics.org
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL
Adult/High School–When she was 17, Siana wrote a series of letters to punk rocker Ogre, the front man of the '80s band Skinny Puppy. The letters speak of depression and cutting, drug abuse and sex, music and poetry. At one concert, Ogre told her that he saved all her letters and one day would return them. True to his word, two boxes arrived at her door nine years later; inside were illustrated letters and journals filled with her most intimate thoughts and fears. Like most cutters, those who injure themselves as a physical manifestation of their inner pain, Siana felt powerless as her life spun out of control. Rereading the letters years later, she realized that expressing herself through this way had saved her life. The letters share what it's like to grow up weird and how one girl could rise above her background. Almost every page of the book is filled with heartbreaking artwork and photos, which brilliantly link the journal entries and letters together, allowing readers to get a look inside the mind of a very creative but disturbed young woman. At the end of the book is a letter from Siana's therapist and a list of resources for teenagers who may be experiencing the same problems and emotions that the author wrote about.–Erin Dennington, Fairfax County Public Library, Chantilly, VA
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