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For our weekly bonus episode, provided exclusively for our Patreon supporters at the Truth Teller level and higher, we’re sharing this week’s bonus with all Gaslit Nation listeners to celebrate Tori Amos’s new powerful book Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage. In this excerpt from Resistance, Tori explains the harrowing inspiration behind her classic song “Cornflake Girl.”

Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from RESISTANCE by Tori Amos, read by the author. Copyright © 2020 by Sword and Stone Publishing, Inc. Used with permission from Simon & Schuster, Inc.