No walls and the recurring dream

"A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco. In her new memoir No Walls and the Recurring Dream Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom combining personal expression the power of music feminism political activism storytelling philanthropy entrepreneurship and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank honest passionate and often funny pages is the tale of one woman's eventful and radical journey to the age of thirty. Ani's coming of age story is defined by her ethos of fierce independence--from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station to unwaveringly building a career through appearances at small clubs and festivals to releasing her first album at the age of 18 to consciously rejecting the mainstream recording industry and creating her own label Righteous Babe Records. In these pages as in life she never hesitates to challenge established rules and expectations maintaining a level of artistic integrity that has impressed many and antagonized more than a few. Ani continues to be a major touring and recording artist as well as a celebrated activist and feminist standing as living proof that you can overcome all personal and societal obstacles to be who you are and to follow your dreams"-