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The PEN Award-winning essay collection about queer lives: Gorgeously punk-rock A.V. Club
The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcoholics, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life, yet all-too-human figures populating Americas fringes. Rife with never-ending fights and failures, theirs are the stories we too often try to forget. But in the process of excavating and documenting these queer lives, Michelle Tea also reveals herself in unexpected and heartbreaking ways.
Delivered with her signature honesty and dark humor, this is Teas first-ever collection of journalistic writing. As she blurs the line between telling other peoples stories and her own, she turns an investigative eye to the genre thats nurtured her entire careermemoirand considers the price that art demands be paid from life.
Winner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Eclectic and wide-ranging. . . . A palpable pain animates many of these essays, as well as a raucous joy and bright curiosity. The New York Times
The best essay collection Ive read in years. The New Republic
Author: Michelle Tea
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Amethyst Editions
Published: 05/08/2018
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781936932184
Language: English
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