Girl in a Band: A Memoir is a 2015 autobiography written by former Sonic Youth bass guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Kim Gordon.

[3][4] The title draws on lyrics from the song "Sacred Trickster" on Sonic Youth's last album, The Eternal (2009): "What's it like to be a girl in a band?/ I don't quite understand."

"[6] In NME, Leonie Cooper noted, "Gossip about the breakdown of both her marriage and Sonic Youth will draw many to Gordon's book.

But she overrides it wonderfully, handling both with resigned simplicity and finding catharsis through the art she cherishes and a performance with an all-female line-up at Nirvana's 2014 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"[7] The Guardian's positive review of the book concluded that "this memoir is a kind of setting ablaze of a life’s work that for Gordon is now inextricable from heartbreak", but observed that, in Gordon's treatment of the breakdown of her marriage, "What could simply be described as a story of two people who fell in love and then fell out of love with all of the usual emotional squalor is... depicted in terms of the midlife crisis, a narrative frame that reads as unnecessarily punitive to all concerned.