The critically acclaimed adventures of an ex-Goth, ex-straight-girl, ex-lesbian, ex-Catholic schoolgirl on the road in 1990s America.
Published by Semiotext(e) to critical acclaim in 1998, Michelle Tea's debut novel The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America quickly established Tea as an exciting new literary talent and the voice of a new generation of queer, bisexual, transgendered, and straight youth. The Village Voice called Passionate Mistakes "the legacy of thirty years of feminism," and Eileen Myles, writing in the Nation, hailed the novel as "a hunk of lyric information that coolly, then frantically, describes the car wreck of her generation. "The too-smart, caustic, and radiant narrator of Passionate Mistakes is, at twenty-seven, an ex-Goth, ex-drummer, ex-straight girl, ex-lesbian separatist vegan graduate of vocational high school in the working class town of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Written with lyrical precision and charm, the novel describes a journey with no final destination, a fast-paced and picaresque road trip that yields a redemptive vision of an America that has nothing left to offer its youth.
This new edition of a Semiotext(e) classic includes critical essays by Brandon Stosuy and Eileen Myles that describe Michelle Tea's achievement as a literary innovator and cultural icon. Michelle Tea is the prolific author of the Lambda Award-winning Valencia, the graphic novel Rent Girl, the "inspired queer bildungsroman" Rose of No Man's Land, and other books. She was a 1999 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for fiction. Her critically acclaimed books have appeared on "books of the year" lists in publications ranging from the Voice Literary Supplement to the San Francisco Chonicle. She lives in San Francisco.
Show moreThe critically acclaimed adventures of an ex-Goth, ex-straight-girl, ex-lesbian, ex-Catholic schoolgirl on the road in 1990s America.
Published by Semiotext(e) to critical acclaim in 1998, Michelle Tea's debut novel The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America quickly established Tea as an exciting new literary talent and the voice of a new generation of queer, bisexual, transgendered, and straight youth. The Village Voice called Passionate Mistakes "the legacy of thirty years of feminism," and Eileen Myles, writing in the Nation, hailed the novel as "a hunk of lyric information that coolly, then frantically, describes the car wreck of her generation. "The too-smart, caustic, and radiant narrator of Passionate Mistakes is, at twenty-seven, an ex-Goth, ex-drummer, ex-straight girl, ex-lesbian separatist vegan graduate of vocational high school in the working class town of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Written with lyrical precision and charm, the novel describes a journey with no final destination, a fast-paced and picaresque road trip that yields a redemptive vision of an America that has nothing left to offer its youth.
This new edition of a Semiotext(e) classic includes critical essays by Brandon Stosuy and Eileen Myles that describe Michelle Tea's achievement as a literary innovator and cultural icon. Michelle Tea is the prolific author of the Lambda Award-winning Valencia, the graphic novel Rent Girl, the "inspired queer bildungsroman" Rose of No Man's Land, and other books. She was a 1999 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for fiction. Her critically acclaimed books have appeared on "books of the year" lists in publications ranging from the Voice Literary Supplement to the San Francisco Chonicle. She lives in San Francisco.
Show more"Dirty, sweet, pop, and poetic, Michelle Tea is like a twisted Spice Girl who can actually singand write."Mary Gaitskill
"Dirty, sweet, pop, and poetic, Michelle Tea is like a twisted Spice Girl who can actually singand write."Mary Gaitskill
Michelle Tea is the prolific author of the Lambda Award-winning
Valencia, the graphic novel Rent Girl, the "inspired queer
bildungsroman" Rose of No Man's Land, and other books. She was a
1999 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for
fiction. Her critically acclaimed books have appeared on "books of
the year" lists in publications ranging from the Voice Literary
Supplement to the San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in San
Francisco.
Eileen Myles, named by BUST magazine "the rock star of modern
poetry," is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and
prose, including Chelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree, and Not
Me (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of The New Fuck You
(Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at
University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has
written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most
recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol/Creative
Capital Foundation.
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 poised, with this breakthrough debut
volume, to become the spokesperson for America's young queer girl
mutant horde.
*New Books Weekly*
Full of burning intensity.
*New York Times*
Sentences that snap, and pop off the page to create a wholly
formed, gruesomely real universe between the book covers.
*Portland Mercury*
The first time I read The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate
Corruption of One Girl in America, I thought, Yes. Finally. No book
has gotten closer to describing my own experience as a teen
American girl, even though I came of age on a different continent
than Michelle Tea, and never slept with another girl, and never
worked as a prostitute. She captures something so close to the core
of contemporary female experience that I want to get trite about
it. I want to gush. I want to call her the Voice of a Generation,
the New Jack Kerouac.
*Bookslut*
The legacy of thirty years of feminism.... Rollicking and
blistering, pained and hilarious, wired and wild-eyed and
smashingly good.
*Village Voice*
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