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Just received my contributor’s copy of the paperback edition of the NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU: WHAT SINÉAD O’CONNOR MEANS TO US anthology! Nice! @onesignalbks.bsky.social

NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU What Sinéad O'Connor Means to Us Edited by SONYA HUBER and MARTHA BAYNE Foreword by NEKO CASE Cover of paperback showing black and white photo of Sinéad O’Connor dressed in priest-like robe while holding a mic CONTENTS Foreword: Sinéad the Undying xi NEKO CASE For Shuhada: "Heroine" SHARBARI ZOHRA AHMED When We All Knew They Were All Wrong: "Jackie" 7 ZOE ZOLBROD Feel No Pain: "Mandinka" 15 SINÉAD GLEESON Of Fire and Ash: "Troy" 21 GINA FRANGELLO Open Letters to a Spiritual Soldier: "I Want Your (Hands on Me)" 31 POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR Listen to the Man at the Liquor Store: "Drink Before the War" 47 MILLICENT SOURIS Bindaas: "Feel So Different" 55 MADHUSHREE GHOSH Keen and Keen: "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" 63 HEIDI CZERWIEC Bringing You Closer to Me: "Three Babies" 67 BROOKE CHAMPAGNE Brambles: "Black Boys on Mopeds" 77 SARAH VIREN Girl You Better Try to Have Fun: "Nothing Compares 2 U" 87 MEGAN STIELSTRA A Mother-Daughter Blood Story: "Jump in the River" 95 MAY-LEE CHAIFirst page of: A Mother-Daughter Blood Story "Jump in the River" MAY-LEE CHAI When I frst heard "Jump in the River" in 1990, I was twenty-three and Id just returned to the U.S. after studying and working in China. ra been living in my father's erstwhile hometown of Nanjing during the year of martial law imposed after the government's violent crackdown on student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square. Everything from mail to radio broadcasts had been curtailed, so I hadn't been able to listen to new music. I'd been looking for a place to call home, and while I had enjoyed living in Nanjing where I could reasonably blend in, so long as I didn't open my mouth, where I didn't have to experience anti-Chinese racism, living under an authoritarian regime was difficult, so I returned to the U.S., still looking for that safe harbor. Then I discovered Sinéad O'Connor. Finally, a voice that expressed what I felt inside. All these turbulent emotions that I could not yet put words to, she was able to vocalize. I loved how Sinéad snarled and howled. hit the high notes like she was throwing a bomb and scraped the low like a caged tiger growling through the iron bars. I didn't have a lot of money, but after I was hired to work as a reporter in Denver, I…