WYATT-MACKENZIE PUBLISHING
★★★
Although The Pointer Sisters are renowned for a string of uplifting 80s party anthems such as Jump (For My Love), Automatic, I’m So Excited and Neutron Dance, Anita and Fritz Pointer’s biography of the group is a multilayered read which looks at the struggles the girls endured to get to the top only to find a whole new set of challenges awaiting them when they got there, threatening the supposedly unbreakable family bond.
Set against a backdrop of the changing social and political climate in the US, it traces the roots of the family from their religious upbringing to surviving abject poverty to a catalogue of horrific personal experiences.