Overview
An urgent proclamation of what life is like for American women without the security of a financial safety net Indie icon Michelle Tea--whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts--shares these fierce, honest, tender essays written by women who can't go home to the suburbs when ends don't meet. When jobs are scarce and the money has dwindled, these writers have nowhere to go but below the poverty line. The writers offer their different stories not for sympathy or sadness, but an unvarnished portrait of how it was, is, and will be for generations of women growing up working class in America. These wide-ranging essays cover everything from selling blood for grocery money to the culture shock of ""jumping"" class. Contributors include Dorothy Allison, Bee Lavender, Eileen Myles, and Daisy Hernandez.
Full Product Details
Author: Michelle Tea ,
Michelle Tea
Publisher: Seal Press
Imprint: Seal Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.234kg
ISBN: 9781580056663
ISBN 10: 1580056660
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 29 March 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
So raw, so fresh, so riveting... An important book for any woman who's grown up - or is growing up - in America. - Vendela Vida
So raw, so fresh, so riveting... An important book for any woman who's grown up - or is growing up - in America. * Vendela Vida *
Author Information
Michelle Tea is the author of five memoirs: The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Valencia (now a film), The Chelsea Whistle (Seal Press), Rent Girl and How to Grow Up (Penguin/Plume), currently in development with Amazon Studios. Her novels include Mermaid in Chelsea Creek and Girl at the Bottom of the Sea, part of a Young Adult fantasy trilogy published by McSweeneys, and Rose of No Man's Land. Black Wave is a dystopic memoir-fiction hybrid. Forthcoming works include Castle on the River Vistula, the final installment of the YA series, and Modern Tarot, a tarot how-to and spell book published by Harper Elixir. Tea is the curator of the Amethyst Editions imprint at Feminist Press. She founded the literary non-profit RADAR Productions and the international Sister Spit performance tours, and is the former editor of Sister Spit Books, an imprint of City Lights. She created Mutha Magazine, an online publication about real-life parenting. Her writing has appeared in Harper's, Cosmopolitan, The Believer, Marie Clare, n+1, xoJane, California Sunday Magazine, Buzzfeed, and many other print and web publications.
