Reviews:
Metro News – Sonja Larsen pens memoir about being a teenage revolutionary – January 12 2016“…For Sonja Larsen, rebellion meant joining a radical left-wing political party and becoming the youngest member of its militia, an astonishing experience she chronicles in her new memoir, Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary, published by Random House Canada. “
Toronto Star – Tuning in, turning on and dropping out, age 9 – Wednesday January 13 2016 “In an eloquent, stranger-than-fiction memoir, Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary, Vancouver’s Sonja Larsen recollects her traumatic experiences with one version of dropping out.”
The Globe and Mail – Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo is an engrossing memoir of a transient childhood – Friday January 15th “I picked up the book in an afternoon and – each page turned in steady anticipation – did not put it down until I was finished.”
National Post – Putting the ‘commune’ in community – Saturday January 23rd 2016 “A triumphant affirmation of the story teller’s art.”
NOW Toronto Magazine – Cult Following – January 27 2016 “an engrossing memoir detailing the art of grotesque seduction.”
Vancouver Sun – The revolution that never was – January 29th 2016 “an insightful and moving memoir.”
Vancouver Province – Feb 12 2016 ‘Everyone knew a kid was better than a dog or a woman for hitchhiking’: don’t call Sonja Larsen a survivor
National Post – The NP99: The best books of the year, vol. 4 (24–2) – December 8 2016 “Larsen’s memoir is a mesmerizing story of an often-forgotten part of history.”
NOW Toronto – The 10 best books of 2016- December 13 2016 “Raised in a hippie commune, a teen winds up in a revolutionary collective in Brooklyn where the charismatic leader’s sexual abuse doesn’t reduce her revolutionary fervour. Sounds like some wild fiction, but it’s actually a memoir told with startling candour.”
CBC Radio The Next Chapter -October 17 2016
Interviews:
CBC On the Coast Radio Interview January 11 2016
RoundHouse Radio Interview January 12 2016
CJOB 680 Radio Interview January 14 2016
Sirius FM The Charles Ader Show January 14 2016
CJAD 800 Radio Interview January 20 2016
Roundhouse Radio Interview January 20 2016
Global morning Monday February 1st 2016
Trying to be Good with Emelia Symington-Fedy – May 16 2016
Podcast with Joseph Planta on The Commentary – May 18 2016
CBC Radio North by Northwest – June 5 2016