The three members of Green Day all came together to write their first book “Last of the American Girls” about true rebel girls. The book is described as “an inspiring homepage and handbook for the rebellious every-women who refuses to capitulate.”
We can look forward to purchasing this book in the fall. It is filled with illustrations by cartoonist Frank Caruso. The tome, which takes its title from the band’s 21 Century Breakdown track of the same name, will see release via Dey Street Book Oct. 29.
The “Last of the American Girls” further tells the tale of the 21st Century Breakdown character Gloria, a “one of a kind” woman found “singing songs on the eve of destruction.” In 2013 Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told Australian Magazine Blunt that the song was originally being written about his wife. As the band was finalizing the lyrics the song meaning became more broad.
“That song started out as being about my wife and then I kind of started getting into more of my own beliefs,” he said. “Anything from a little book of conspiracies to like playing vinyl records or something. It’s sort of like about an empowering, sort of subterranean kind of lifestyle, but at the same time there’s a new era coming in with the way we all need to live — like living in a disposable society or something like that but actually living off garbage and finding beauty in it in some way.”
