Michelle Tea
In this gritty, confessional memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusettsâ€”a place where time and hope are spent on things not getting any worse. Teaâ€™s girlhood is shaped by the rough fabric of the neighborhood and by its charactersâ€”the soft vulnerability of her sister Madeline and her quietly brutal Polish father; the doddering, sometimes violent nuns of Our Lady of Assumption; Marisol Lewis from the projects by the creek; and Johnna Latrotta, the tough-as-nails Italian dance-school teacher who offered a slim chance for escape to every young Chelsea girl in tulle and tap shoes. Told in Teaâ€™s trademark loose-tongued, lyrical style, this memoir both celebrates and annihilates one girlâ€™s tightrope walk out of a working-class slum and the lessons she carries with her. With wry humor and a hard-fought wisdom, Tea limns the extravagant peril of a dramatic adolescence with the private, catastrophic secret harbored within the walls of her familyâ€™s homeâ€”a secret that threatens to destroy her family forever.
Autobiography,Memoir,GLBT,Queer,Nonfiction,LGBT,Biography Memoir,Feminism,LGBT,Lesbian,Biography,Young Adult,Coming Of Age,Queer,Queer Lit
The Chelsea Whistle