Loved Broken Horses by for its raw, whiskey-honest truth? High School by hits exactly that hard.
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- Twin bond amplifies every coming-out tremor
- 90s alt-rock nostalgia w/ lyrical urgency
- Small-town suffocation meets queer defiance raw
- Evangelical shame unpacked without self-pity sermons
If Brandi Carlile's Broken Horses felt like a friend finally telling you the whole truth over whiskey, High School delivers that same gut-punch intimacy—twin sisters excavating their queer awakenings in a prairie town that wanted them small and silent. The Quins write with the same lyrical ache you heard in Carlile's prose, turning teenage bedrooms and first acid trips into sacred ground where identity gets forged in secret.
This isn't inspiration porn disguised as memoir. It's messy, funny, and fiercely honest about sibling rivalry, parental disappointment, and the salvation found in making noise when the world demands your silence.
Read it for the salvation found in making noise when the world demands your silence.
What Readers Are Saying
"This is a gorgeous book. Truly! It's brimming with so much beauty and hurt... I hungrily tore through this." — Holly (The GrimDragon), Goodreads
"Tegan and Sara's writing is beautiful, haunting, and oh-so-relatable...it captures the essence of that particular place and time, of grubby C-Train platforms and cold river plunges...the experience of a queer awakening in a place and a time in which it was not normalised." — girl so confusing, Goodreads
"This memoir is such moving insight into their relationship...I didn’t want this book to end, I became so immersed in their world." — Sam, Goodreads
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