A very different type of Rock 'n' Roll memoir, Kim Gordon's (Sonic Youth) A Girl in a Band is impressionistic and nonlinear. Rather than present us with an exhaustive document of New York punk and No Wave scenes out of which Sonic Youth emerged, Gordon constructs a delicate prism around her musical and artistic career. Starting with the dissolution of her marriage to Thurston Moore and moving backwards and forward through time, A Girl in a Band feels like both an indictment of male-dominated arts cultures and a hopeful look forward at what could be coming next.