High School
Release Date:
September 24, 2019 (Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook)
October 6, 2020 (Paperback in Canada)
November 17, 2020 (Paperback in U.S. and U.K.)
Description:
High School is a memoir written by Sara Quin and Tegan Quin about their lives as teenagers. It includes stories about their relationship as twins, their experiences with their sexuality, and them starting their band. It was written in alternating perspectives between Tegan and Sara.
The audiobook was recorded by both of them, which each of them narrating their own chapters. It also included demos that they created in High School and an interview between the both of them.
There is a television series adaptation of the novel titled High School on Amazon Freevee.
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Chapter list:
Prologue (Sara)
Prologue (Tegan)
Introduction: Wild Rose Country (Sara)
Grade Ten:
1. Welcome to High School (Tegan)
2. Grade-Ten Dirtbags (Sara)
3. Every Bus Ride's a Gamble (Tegan)
4. Acid (Sara)
5. We're Holding It for a Guy (Tegan)
6. Naomi (Sara)
7. You Can't Say Fag (Tegan)
8. Suicidal Tendencies (Sara)
9. Basket Case (Tegan)
10. Let's Rave (Sara)
11. Tegan Didn't Go to School Today (Tegan) [Includes demo]
12. Hula-Hoops and Chainsaws (Sara) [Includes demo I'm Alive]
Summer 1996:
13. A Summer Abroad (Tegan)
14. Montreal (Sara)
Grade Eleven:
15. Latchkey Kids (Tegan)
16. Sex Note (Sara)
17. Why Doesn't This Feel Right? (Tegan)
18. The Haircut (Sara) [Includes demo Please Help Me]
19. You Won't Believe What Happened (Tegan) [Includes demo Plunk]
20. Homosexual
21. My Girlfriend Has a Boyfriend (Sara) [Includes demo I Don't Owe You Anything]
22. Looking for a Hero in All the Wrong Places (Tegan)
23. Switchblade (Sara)
24. Ditch Pigs (Tegan)
25. Light Punk (Sara) [Includes demo Instamatic]
26. Who's in Your Band? (Tegan) [Includes demo Johnny My Frend]
27. I'm Making You Sick (Sara) [Includes demo Emaculation]
Summer 1997:
28. Something's Missing (Tegan)
29. Boyfriend (Sara)
Grade Twelve:
30. The Hickey (Tegan)
31. Psycho (Sara)
32. We're Nothing Like Them (Tegan)
33. Career and Life Management (Sara)
34. Don't Believe the Things They Tell You, They Lie (Tegan) [Includes demo]
35. New Year's Eve (Sara)
36. Back to Reality (Tegan)
37. Garage Warz (Sara) [Includes audio of Collide]
38. The First Cut Is the Deepest (Tegan)
39. Quitter (Sara)
40. Sara and Tegan (Tegan) [Includes demo Here I Am]
41. What Do You Know About Love? (Sara) [Includes demo Keep Them Close 'Cause They Will Fuck You Too]
42. The Press Club (Tegan) [Includes demo Just Me]
43. I Need Space (Sara)
44. Cognitive Dissonance (Tegan)
45. Confession (Sara) [Includes demo Kissing Spiders]
46. I Was Already Gone (Tegan)
Epilogue:
Expelled (Sara) [Includes demo Hello]
Under Feet Like Ours (Tegan)
Acknowledgements (Sara)
Acknowledgements (Tegan)
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