About the book: 2023 / American singer, music producer, public figure and femme fatale Joanna Stingray arrived in Leningrad in early 80s of the XX century. For more than ten years, her life was inextricably linked with the USSR, with the world of the Soviet underground. This wonderful world so amazed and inspired Joanna that she became one of the most famous popularizers of Soviet and post-Soviet rock culture in the West. Two books of memoirs by Joanna Stingray, “Stingray in Wonderland” and “Stingray in Wonderland,” are now published in one volume in the new design and with a new foreword by the author, in which Joanna talks about her arrival in Russia in 2004 and 2018, her daughter Madison, the process of writing her memoirs and much more that worried her after returning to America. After reading them, you will find out how it all happened In fact. This book is an invaluable evidence of the formation and development of Russian rock and the art underground during its most fruitful “golden” period. Boris Grebenshchikov and Viktor Tsoi, Yuri Kasparian and Sergei Kuryokhin, Kostya Kinchev and Timur Novikov, Africa and Kolya Vasin, David Bowie and Andy Warhol and many, many other heroes of the fairy-tale Wonderland. Thirty years later, Joanna decided to return to this bright period of her biography and tell about all the twists and turns of adventures in your book, this is a look from the inside, not only a witness, but also a direct participant in many events that were destined to become history. Her memories are open and surprisingly honest, these are memories of people she loved and continues to love.