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Award-winning publisher, narrator, and screenwriter Neil Gaiman personally selected this booklet, and, using the tools of the Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), cast the narrator and produced this improve his audiobook label, Neil Gaiman Presents. A few words from Neil on You Must Go and Gain: "Her experiences are funny, heartwarming, tragic - often all at the same time. Her subject matter, whether music, religious beliefs, Russia, or family, are conjured and dissected with warm laughter and sharp eye. Probably it's an extremely good thing she never became an international rock superstar; she wouldn't have written this if she acquired.... This is her first audiobook, and she reads it as well as she creates." In the wickedly bittersweet and amusing You Must Go and Gain, the Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock world, from devastating Craigslist auditions with sketchy providers to finding and catching fleas in a Williamsburg sublet. But Simone offers more than down-and-out stories of her time as a battling musician: she's a rapier wit, slashing and burning her way through the absurdities of life, while offering astonishing and poignant insights in to the burdens of family goals and the type of ambition, the temptations of religious beliefs, and the lure of a mythical Russian home. Wavering between embracing and fleeing her outsized and nebulous dreams of stardom, Simone confronts her Russian past when she comes deeply in love with the music of Yanka Dyagileva, a Soviet performer who tragically died young; hits the street with her child years friend who is dead set on becoming an "icon"; and battles male strippers in Siberia. Hailed as "the perfect surprise of creative skill" (USA Today, Pop Chocolate), Simone is poised to win over followers of David Rakoff and Sarah Vowell with her irresistibly funny and alluring literary debut.
