Book - Petal Pusher
A memoir by Laurie Lindeen, a founding member of all-woman alternative rock band Zuzu's Petals recounts how after her diagnosis with multiple sclerosis, her best friends and she relocated to Minneapolis and launched successful careers before she fell in love and reevaluated her priorities.
Author: Laurie Lindeen
ISBN: 9780743292320
Publisher: Atria Books
Date: 2007
Excerpt:
I was in fourth grade my parents hired a babysitter to take me to a David Cassidy concert. Once my eyes and imagination feasted on the Partridge Family on Friday nights, David replaced my Davy Jones, Bobby Sherman, and Donny Osmond posters on my closet door quickly and completely. When I got to his rescheduled concert (he canceled for emergency gall bladder surgery, and I had to wait half a year), ten thousand other girls knew all of the words to his songs, too. And even more threatening, some of the girls were teenagers with breasts. David didn't belong to me at all. I felt betrayed. Bitter. All of that energy invested into nothing. I knew it wasn't going to be a private concert in my logical mind, but I guess I thought I'd meet him and he'd somehow know me. That's the deal with pop stars; you're expected to share them with the masses. I hated the idea."
