Michelle Tea, Author . Seal Press $14.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-58005-239-9
"Childhood is morbid," declares Tea, author of the Lambda Award–winning Valencia, in this gritty girlhood memoir. As a kid, she perfected the art of playing dead. In her teens, she was deep into Goth-black lipstick and lace, her...
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Michelle Tea, Author . Manic D $13.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-916397-89-0
A young stalwart of San Francisco's queer underground, a onetime "lesbian feminist radical activist prostitute," and a survivor of Boston's roughest neighborhoods, Tea has won plaudits with novels (the Lambda Award–winning...
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Michelle Tea, Author . MacAdam/Cage $22 (306p) ISBN 978-1-59692-160-3
Tea follows up her Lambda Award–winning San Francisco prostitution memoir, Valencia
(2000), her sporadically transcendent collected poems, The Beautiful
(2003), and last year's graphic novel, Rent Girl
(now in development for TV), with...
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Michelle Tea, Author Seal Press (CA) $13 (216p) ISBN 978-1-58005-035-7
Tea, a modern-day Beat, is also a kind of pop ambassador to the world of the tattooed, pierced, politicized and sex-radical queer-grrls of San Francisco. Her second novel (after The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America)
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Michelle Tea, Author Seal Press (CA) $14.95 (296p) ISBN 978-1-58005-073-9
""Childhood is morbid,"" declares Tea, author of the Lambda Award-winning Valencia, in this gritty girlhood memoir. As a kid, she perfected the art of playing dead. In her teens, she was deep into Goth-black lipstick and lace, her hearse-driving
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Michelle Tea. Plume, $16 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-14-218119-5
Tea has written memoirs (e.g., The Chelsea Whistle) about what it’s like to be “born broke, or weird, into tricky families and unsafe towns,” and now comes this tough, quirky volume from the “trembling hard-won perch of adulthood.” The story begins...
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Michelle Tea. Feminist, $18.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-55861-939-5
In the first half of Tea’s (Valencia) autobiographical latest, set in San Francisco’s Mission District in 1999, sex and drugs are the primary occupations of the protagonist, also named Michelle. As Michelle gets drunk one evening, like most evenings,
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Michelle Tea, illus. by Jason Polan. McSweeney's, $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-938073-36-6
Cult memoirist and adult fiction author Tea (Valencia) makes her YA debut with a gripping, though bleakly imagined fantasy. Sophie Swankowski drifts along in the still and depressing backwater of Chelsea, Mass., numbing her pain by holding her...
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Michelle Tea, illus. by Mike Perry. Dottir, $18.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-948340-07-6
This volume introduces a different “astro baby” for each of the astrological signs: “The moment you were born,/ time stood still/ and your chart was cast/ with a magical quill.” Perry illustrates the babies as phantasmagoric, brightly colored beings
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Michelle Tea. Dey Street, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-321062-2
In this frank and funny memoir, essayist Tea (How to Grow Up) spares no detail of her arduous odyssey of getting pregnant at 40. “I’m about to bring you into my inner world,” she promises readers, “during a period of time when that space was as wild,
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Michelle Tea. HarperOne, $21.99 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-337819-3
“The gorgeousness of a modern magic tradition is that we get to curate it to suit us exactly,” according to this flexible and creative outing from memoirist Tea (Modern Tarot). After ditching her childhood Catholicism in 1980s Boston and embracing...
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