The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America (Native Agents)
Editorial Reviews
The Nation, Eileen Myles
...a gem of endangered narration from a loud and highly marginalized subculture, in particular the third wave of feminism. Tea's work resists categorization, and like all surprising vanguard literature, it's the news--a hunk of lyric information that coolly, then frantically, describes the car wreck of her generation and everything that surrounds it.
Book Description
Dirty, sweet, pop and poetic, Michelle Tea is like a twisted Spice Girl who can actually sing - and write. - Mary Gaitskill
Passionate Mistakes charts the turbulent adventures of one girl in America from Boston's teenage goth world to whoring in New Age Tucson to arriving in San Francisco's dyke underground. Honest, sarcastic, lyrical and direct, Tea's work is the most literate and sophisticated treatment of these subjects to date. She's a reincarnated jill johnston from when jill johnston used to be cool.
At 27, Michelle Tea is an ex-prostitute, ex Goth, ex-drummer for Dirt Bike Gang, ex-straight girl, ex-lesbian separatist vegan, ex-Catholic schoolgirl, and ex-resident of Chelsea, Boston's working class slum. She is also poised, with this breakthrough debut volume, to become the spokesperson for America's young queer girl mutant horde.
The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America (Native Agents),Michelle Tea,Semiotext(e),1570270740,Boston (Mass.),Fiction,Fiction - General,Lesbians,Literary,Short Stories (single author),Modern fiction,Other prose: from c 1900 -
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