Listen "The Strange, Lonely Childhood of Neko Case"
Episode Synopsis
In a new memoir, the singer-songwriter Neko Case recounts a childhood of poverty and neglect: a mother who left her and a father who was barely there. But there was also music. And when there was nothing else, that was, perhaps, enough.
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