Valencia by Michelle Tea
'A wonderfully disgusting book ... invigorating' DAZED Best Books for Pride Month The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea's classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts 'One of the few truly life changing books I've encountered' Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby Fleeing Tucson and her troublesome on-and-off ex-girlfriend, Michelle lands in queer San Francisco's riotous underbelly, stumbling through her early twenties in a haze of nightlife, drug adventures, scams and a string of hookups, break-ups and make-ups. As butches and dykes spin in and out of her orbit, she considers the force and casual cruelty of their desires and her own. Heady, beer-sticky and brimming with life, Valencia is a sharply observed and piercingly funny chronicle of a year lived close to the bone. 'If you want to know how dangerous and great and awful it is to be a girl, you'll scarf Valencia right up' Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls 'Michelle Tea is an intoxicating writer, delivering sentences that land with the snap and force of a punch' Guardian
Valencia is one of the few true life-changer books I've encounteredOne of those books that gets casually slipped to you, and then, a couple hours later, you understand you've been living all wrong -- Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby
If you want to know how dangerous and great and awful it is to be a girl you'll scarf Valencia right up. The street today is full of girls if you haven't noticed -- Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls
Michelle Tea is an intoxicating writer, delivering sentences that land with the snap and force of a punch * Guardian *
I consider Michelle Tea a literary MOTHER. I will forever tip my hat to her and the timeless and immortal text that is Valencia -- Brontez Purnell, author of 100 Boyfriends
If you want to know how dangerous and great and awful it is to be a girl you'll scarf Valencia right up. The street today is full of girls if you haven't noticed -- Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls
Michelle Tea is an intoxicating writer, delivering sentences that land with the snap and force of a punch * Guardian *
I consider Michelle Tea a literary MOTHER. I will forever tip my hat to her and the timeless and immortal text that is Valencia -- Brontez Purnell, author of 100 Boyfriends
Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books, including Black Wave, Knocking Myself Up, and Against Memoir. Valencia received the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction and was adapted into a feature film.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781805226819 |
| ISBN 10 | 1805226819 |
| Title | Valencia |
| Author | Michelle Tea |
| Series | Serpent's Tail Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-06-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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