At the same time, something was very wrong within her own family. Lunch said that her father, a door-to-door salesman and grifter, sexually abused her, and her parents fought constantly and bitterly. “They were so extreme and so perverse,” Lunch said with awe. “They directed what I was to do.”She hoped that would take the form of spoken word pieces but, at the time, music provided a far more welcoming audience. My ideal audience would be reduced to one,” she said.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2021 18:22 UTC