Valencia

The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea''s classic coming of age memoir - 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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Tea, Tea Michelle
• Assisted by: Nelson Maggie (Foreword)
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.06.2025
• EAN: 9781805226819
• ISBN: 978-1-80522-681-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary