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Books by Michelle Tea
  | | Against Memoir(1st Edition) Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms by Michelle Tea Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2018 by Amethyst Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-936932-18-4, ISBN: 1-936932-18-0 "“I gobbled up these essays. Michelle Tea is riotously, wickedly funny, with an uncommon knack for naming the more hideous and complex parts of being human. Her particular genius makes the hardest truths and sorrows an irresistible joy to read.” ―Melissa Febos, author of Abandon MeThe razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcoholics, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are s ..." |
 | | How to Grow Up A Memoir by Michelle Tea Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Plume ISBN-13: 978-0-14-218119-5, ISBN: 0-14-218119-6 "“A gutsy, wise memoir-in-essays from a writer praised as ‘impossible to put down’”—PeopleFrom the author of the acclaimed genre-bending Black Wave comes this moving personal essay collection about the trials and triumphs of shedding your vices in order to find yourself. As an aspiring young writer in San Francisco, Michelle Tea lived in a scuzzy communal house: she drank; she smoked; she snorted anything she got her hands on; she toiled ..." |
 | | Astro Baby by Michelle Tea, Mike Perry Hardcover, 56 Pages, Published 2019 by Dottir Press ISBN-13: 978-1-948340-07-6, ISBN: 1-948340-07-0 "ASTRO BABY is for newborns who like to gaze at bright colors, toddlers who are fascinated by images of babies and animals, older children able to comprehend the concepts put forth by astrology, and grown-ups who are obsessed with their star signs.Ridiculously charming, Astro Baby depicts a world where everyone has special things that make them happy and unique.Actual astrological references elevate the picture book from fantasy. Educat ..." |
 | | Valencia(2nd Edition) by Michelle Tea Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2008 by Seal Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58005-238-2, ISBN: 1-58005-238-X "You don't have to be part of the emerging postpunk subculture of queer urban girls to relish this smooth ride of a novel, like Kathy Acker on Prozac on a sunny day, in which many exciting things happen without affecting much of anything, and one of the most profound moments is a mild, drug-induced insight into the meaninglessness of life. Michelle, the main character, is a person for whom blue hair is as big a style change as blue pants ..." |
 | | The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America(Reprint) (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, Brandon Stosuy, Introduction-Brandon Stosuy Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2007 by Semiotext(E) ISBN-13: 978-1-58435-052-1, ISBN: 1-58435-052-0 "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 o ..." |
 | | Modern Tarot Connecting with Your Higher Self through the Wisdom of the Cards by Michelle Tea, Amanda Verwey Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2017 by Harperone ISBN-13: 978-0-06-268240-6, ISBN: 0-06-268240-7 "Beloved literary iconoclast Michelle Tea reinvents tarot for a new generation in this guide to using the Tarot as a twenty-first-century tool for connecting with our higher selves. Long before Michelle Tea was winning awards for her poignant memoirs, she was a scrappy misfit on the streets of San Francisco, supporting herself by giving eerily prescient tarot readings. As her reputation as a writer grew, she stopped publicly reading the ..." |
 | | Black Wave(1st Edition) by Michelle Tea Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Amethyst Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-55861-939-5, ISBN: 1-55861-939-9 ""I was unable put down Black Wave, suddenly afraid and unsure of what was out there beyond my reading. This bad fairytale-come-true is destabilizing and palpable, and it's Michelle Tea's most fearless book. It's a radically honest, scary, and wonderful place that she's spun. It shook me up." —Eileen Myles"Scary, funny, and genre-bending—a mind-blowing meta-poem—Black Wave is Michelle Tea's most ambitious, complex, and imaginative work s ..." |
 | | Rent Girl by Michelle Tea, Laurenn Mccubbin, First Last Paperback, 239 Pages, Published 2004 by Last Gasp Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-86719-620-7, ISBN: 0-86719-620-3 "Rent Girl is the illustrated saga of one broke baby dyke trying to make a buck in the surreal world of the sex industry. Avoiding the stereotypes of prostitute as victim or superhero, Tea instead explores the complicated occupation in all its nuances - absurd, somber, hilarious, disturbing. When Michelle, a young Boston baby dyke, needs money, her adventuresome girlfriend suggests taking up a secretive career in the world of escort serv ..." |
 | | Black Wave (Paperback) by Michelle Tea Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by And Other Stories ISBN-13: 978-1-908276-90-2, ISBN: 1-908276-90-8 |
 | | Girl at the Bottom of the Sea by Michelle Tea, Amanda Verwey Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2015 by Mcsweeney's Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-940450-00-1, ISBN: 1-940450-00-4 "Sophie Swankowski is the hero from the stories she's been hearing all her life: she's the girl who will save the world. Or so she's been told. Now she and her unlikely guardianthe gruff, filthy mermaid Syrenamust travel the pitch-black seas from broken-down Chelsea, Massachusetts, to Syrena s homeland in Poland. Along the way, Syrena will reveal the terrible truth about her past, and teach Sophie about the ages-old source of her newly d ..." |
 | | The Beautiful Collected Poems by Michelle Tea Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2003 by Manic D Press, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-916397-89-0, ISBN: 0-916397-89-0 "“Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism.”—The San Francisco Bay GuardianBefore penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published in small editions, now collected here for the first time. A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2004 and a Lambda Literary Award finalist." |
 | | The Chelsea Whistle(1st Edition) A Memoir (Live Girls) by Michelle Tea Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2002 by Seal Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58005-073-9, ISBN: 1-58005-073-5 "In this gritty, confessional memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusettsa place where time and hope are spent on things not getting any worse. Tea’s girlhood is shaped by the rough fabric of the neighborhood and by its charactersthe soft vulnerability of her sister Madeline and her quietly brutal Polish father; the doddering, sometimes violent nuns of Our Lady of Assumption; Marisol ..." |
 | | Without a Net The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class by Michelle Tea 288 Pages, Published 2018 by Seal Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58005-667-0, ISBN: 1-58005-667-9 "RACHEL ANN BRICKNER SAY I TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT A GIRL WHO'S AFRAID OF MONEY. FROM A young age, she learned that there didn't seem to be much of it and that hard work didn't mean one would ever have much of it." |
 | | Against Memoir Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms by Michelle Tea 323 Pages, Published 2018 by Feminist Press At Cuny ISBN-13: 978-1-936932-19-1, ISBN: 1-936932-19-9 "I want to hear it again. Would I still like it? Would it stand the test of time? Some bands, like the Cure or Siouxsie and the Banshees, are recognized classics and live on in my iTunes. Others, like Alien Sex Fiend, Kommunity FK, or Love and Rockets, I haven't heard in forever. As much as it drives me crazy to spend money on something I already once spent money on, I decided to recreate my 1980s record collection, one slab of viny ..." |
 | | Modern Tarot Connecting with Your Higher Self Through the Wisdom of the Cards by Michelle Tea 400 Pages, Published 2017 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-246010-3, ISBN: 0-06-246010-2 "garage somewhere in Silicon Valley. They're pure, inspired energy, the kind you feel in your gut. Of course, such intensity can burn itself out (not to mention burn up those it touches). It can run from project to project or romance to romance with ..." |
 | | Castle on the River Vistula by Michelle Tea Hardcover, 254 Pages, Published 2017 by Mcsweeney's Mcmullens ISBN-13: 978-1-944211-28-8, ISBN: 1-944211-28-4 "When Sophie Swankowski surfaces from the freezing waters, she finds herself in an ancient castle in Polandand in the center of an ages-old battle. Even with her magic powers, the strength and wisdom she learns from her companions in Warsaw, and the help of her gruff mermaid guardian, Syrena, how can one thirteen-year-old from scrappy Chelsea Massachusetts, really save the world?Luckily, Sophie won’t be alone. As she connects to other g ..." |
 | | Black Wave by Michelle Tea 320 Pages, Published 2016 by The Feminist Press At Cuny ISBN-13: 978-1-55861-946-3, ISBN: 1-55861-946-1 "Wendy found her an online group, but using the Internet to get support for an illness rumored to be caused by the Internet felt counterintuitive and Kym declined. Only the television seemed safe. Television had been around forever and no one had gotten sick from it. Kym longed for the yesteryear of landlines, heavy phones whose cables and wires rooted into the ground like plants. Safe things, not these teeny little cell phones tran ..." |
 | | Mermaid in Chelsea Creek(1st Edition) by Michelle Tea, Jason Polan Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2014 by Mcsweeney's Mcmullens ISBN-13: 978-1-938073-95-3, ISBN: 1-938073-95-9 "Everyone in the broken-down town of Chelsea, Massachusetts, has a story too worn to repeatfrom the girls who play the pass-out game just to feel like they're somewhere else, to the packs of aimless teenage boys, to the old women from far away who left everything behind. But there’s one story they all still tell: the oldest and saddest but most hopeful story, the one about the girl who will be able to take their twisted world and straig ..." |
 | | Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Mcsweeney's ISBN-13: 978-1-938073-82-3, ISBN: 1-938073-82-7 "“There is no such thing as ethics,” the Dola said. “There is only destiny, and much of it is bad. Nonetheless, it is such, it is destiny. It is the rule, and it must be obeyed.” The Dola turned her face to the sun. “The destiny of every person is inside ..." |
 | | Sister Spit Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road by Michelle Tea 225 Pages, Published 2013 by City Lights Books ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-593-8, ISBN: 0-87286-593-2 "... door I thought, if she's home, I'll stay. If she's at the bar, I'm taking my priestess self right out of here. I felt electric and I put my keys in the door wiggled the doorknob and pushed. Pandora Sara Seinberg There was no weather then. It was 93." |
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