A01=Michelle Tea
Author_Michelle Tea
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lesbian fiction
maggie nelson
queer classic
rachel kushner
san francisco'
the argonauts
Product details
- ISBN 9781805226819
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'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
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.
