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‘Women’s rage is real. Mostly we turn it on ourselves’: Neko Case on songwriting, survival – and her mother’s faked death

The Grammy-nominated indie icon has written her memoir, and confronted a shocking deception by her family. But now, she says, it’s the music industry that really angers her

In Case’s new memoir, The Harder I Fight the More I Love You, she attempts to impose order on her tangled roots – from her childhood, characterised by poverty and neglect, to her escape into music via the Seattle punk scene. Her lyrics – filled with folkloric wisdom, wildlife and natural imagery – invoke a world where human logic ranks second to animal instinct, and “civilisation” is only a flimsy veneer over red-in-tooth-and-claw reality. Alongside promoting the book, she is staging rehearsals for the musical adaptation of Thelma & Louise she has spent eight years writing with the film’s screenwriter, Callie Khouri.

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