Neko Case will release the love-exorcist Memoir next year

Close to three decades removed from her 1997 debut album The VirginianNeko Case will tell her life story in a new memoir, out January 28.

The book, The harder I fight, the more I love you — which takes its moniker from the second half of Case's famously long-titled 2013 album — will examine how she grew up feeling invisible, “raised by two dogs and a space heater,” in the “one-horse dump towns.” of Washington State. became a critically acclaimed alt-country and indie-rock artist as a member of the New Pornographers. The book's publisher, Grand Central Publishing, describes it as “a revolutionary meditation on identity and corruption and a manifesto on how to make room for ourselves in this world, despite the obstacles we face.”

“I hope my story will cast a spell of love, invite everyone in, and shatter the illusion that we have nothing to do with each other,” Case said in a statement.

“This is a fierce, funny, heartwarming memoir that will break your heart and fix it again,” author Susan Orlean said in a preview. “Cayce's writing is as piercing and beautiful as her beautiful singing and will completely captivate you.”

In a 2015 interview with Rolling rock, Case reflected on how her career took off while in art school. “I learned how to be my own boss and discipline myself,” she said of what she learned. “It also ingrained in me the question, 'Did my work say to the audience what I wanted it to say?' I certainly don't believe in “Oh, I let the music take me away.” This is bullshit. Some things come very easily when you're writing songs… but it's not some spirit that comes to visit you.”