Tegan and Sara Are Putting Out a Memoir

Tegan and Sara are releasing a memoir called High School. The indie pop twin sister duo announced the book on Tuesday (December 11).

“How did you start your band? When did you know that you were gay? What were you like before Tegan and Sara? We have spent 20 years answering those complicated questions with simple answers. Writing High School gives us the opportunity to tell the intricate stories that shaped our relationship as sisters, musicians, and queer girls,” the siblings wrote in a statement.

According to a press release, the memoir was written in alternating chapters, detailing both Tegan and Sara's accounts of the trials and tribulations they endured during their formative years growing up in Calgary, Alberta, including grappling with their identities, academic meltdowns, their parents' divorce, and the pressure of what comes after high school. The prose is both raw and transcendent, as the alternative rock stars reveal who they were before beginning their 20-year careers as successful musicians, selling over a million records, releasing eight studio albums, earning seven Gold and one Platinum certificate, receiving three Juno awards and a GRAMMYs nomination, and performing on some of the world's biggest stages.

High School will be published in the fall of 2019 by MCD, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, alongside Simon & Schuster Canada and Virago in the United Kingdom.

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