The book starts off talking about the death of Kurt Cobain, which creates the perception that the book is going to focus quite a bit on Cobain’s death and try to provide some explanation and theories into why he decided to take his own life at such an early age. This is a very accurate reading of the book, as throughout the whole biography Christopher Sandford provides many theories and anecdotal evidence, onto what went on in the complex and unpredictable mind of Kurt Cobain.

After the first chapter on Cobain’s death, the biography has a fairly chronological birth to death structure. The second chapter starts off talking about the birth of Kurt Cobain in Hoquiam; a small logging town 110 miles southwest of Seattle. Kurt Cobain’s father, Donald Cobain, describes Hoquiam as ‘the bleakest single spot on the west coast’ and ‘a place that was

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