The Harder I Fight The More I Love You: A Memoir

Reader, I really want to hand this book to you personally and tell you, in one excited rush, how much it moved me. The Harder I Fight, the More I Love You is a hell of an origin story: heartbreaking and funny, brave and weird, hard to swallow and impossible to put down. Neko Case has been my favorite singer-songwriter for many years, hands down, and now she’s written one of my favorite memoirs. – Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place BeautifulThis is a fierce, funny, moving memoir that will break your heart and patch it back up. Case’s writing is as piercing and beautiful as her gorgeous singing, and will carry you away completely. * New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean *A vivid, exuberant, heartrending coming-of-age story that demonstrates the saving power of art. This book captured me the way Case’s songs do: with their ache and beauty and promise that the only way through this life is to feel it all. – Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismI burned through this book in three feverish days, overcome by the spellcasting, storytelling, and pure song of Neko Case’s words. Here is one of the most remarkable people you will ever meet, on the page or otherwise: So honest, kind, funny, and tender-so human-you will fall in love if you haven’t already. A book not so much about the creation of an icon as it is about the lionhearted love Neko Case has for the whole damn world. – Rachel Yoder, author of NightbitchCase said she never explicitly wrote songs about her life. Her memoir, however, reveals her love of animals, music and mythology as lifelines through her “feral” childhood . . Yet hers is not a misery memoir: Case tells these stories with honesty, heart and deadpan humour * The Guardian *The gift of Neko Case as a memoirist mirrors the gift of Neko Case as a songwriter: there is a warmth of clarity, of language selection, of narrative flourish. This book reads, and feels, as if you are on a porch with an old friend, telling you stories you’ve heard a hundred times, but cannot wait to hear once more – Hanif Abdurraqib, author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in AmericaA tender, poetic memoir * Uncut *Neko Case’s memoir is right up there with the autobiographical writings of Rickie Lee Jones, Viv Albertine, Miki Berenyi et al, a startling first-hand account of a woman’s determined search for her own voice in the face of terrible loneliness and low self-esteem * Mojo *Shiver-inducing * The Irish Times *It’s only February but it’s hard to believe there will be a better music memoir published this year … This is a book full of trauma and full of rage, but also one that sings the beauty of the natural world and the joy of music. The result is remarkable * The Herald *

Singer, songwriter, music producer, visual artist, and writer Neko Case has built a career with her distinctive style and musical versatility. In addition to her numerous critically-acclaimed and Grammy-nominated solo records, Case is a founding member of The New Pornographers and has recorded a collaborative album with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs. She currently authors the popular bi-weekly Substack newsletter ‘Entering the Lung’ and is writing the music for a high-profile Broadway production.