Valencia
April 2008
Trade Paperback · 216 Pages
$16.00 U.S.
ISBN 9781580052382
Seal Press
Trade Paperback · 216 Pages
$16.00 U.S.
ISBN 9781580052382
Seal Press
Recommended for These Courses
- Language and Literature: Fiction
- Language and Literature: Lesbian
- Women's and Gender Studies: Lesbian Studies
Description
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Through a string of narrative moments, Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the South in a dust cloud of drama; and Iris's ex, Magdalena Squalor, to whom Michelle turns when Iris breaks her heart. Valencia conveys a blend of youthful urgency and apocalyptic apathy.