âA helluva compelling story.â âElle
âStorm Large is a force of nature. Her ballsy, heartbreaking, hysterical, tour de force of a memoir is not to be missed.â âChelsea Cain, New York Times bestselling author
âEdgy, gritty, and fearless.â âThe Portland Observer
Yes, Storm Large is her real name, though sheâs been called many things. As a performer, the majority of descriptions have led with âAmazon,â âpowerhouse,â âa six-foot Vargas pinup come to life.â Playboy called her a âpunk goddess.â Youâd never know she used to be called âLittle Sââthe mini-me to her beautiful and troubled mother, Suzi.
Little S spent most of her childhood visiting her mother in mental institutions and psych wards. Suziâs diagnosis changed with almost every doctorâs visit, ranging from schizophrenia to bipolar disorder to multiple personality disorder to depression. One day, nine-year-old Little S jokingly asked one of her motherâs doctors, âIâm not going to be crazy like that, right?â To which he replied, âWell, yes. Itâs hereditary. You absolutely will end up like your mother. But not until your twenties.â
Stormâs story of growing up with a mental time bomb hanging over her veers from frightening to inspiring, sometimes all in one sentence. But her strength, charisma, and raw musical talent gave her the will to overcome it all. Crazy Enough is âa memoir that reads like an in-your-face mashup of Augusten Burroughs and Chelsea Handlerâ (Shelf Awareness) and a love song to the twisted, flawed parts in all of us.