The Chelsea Whistle / Michelle Tea. (Live Girls Series) - Softcover

Tea, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1580050735 ISBN 13: 9781580050739

Publisher: Seal Press, 2002

Synopsis

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 Lewis from the projects by the creek; and Johnna Latrotta, the tough-as-nails Italian dance-school teacher who offered a slim chance for escape to every young Chelsea girl in tulle and tap shoes. Told in Tea s trademark loose-tongued, lyrical style, this memoir both celebrates and annihilates one girl s tightrope walk out of a working-class slum and the lessons she carries with her. With wry humor and a hard-fought wisdom, Tea limns the extravagant peril of a dramatic adolescence with the private, catastrophic secret harbored within the walls of her family s homea secret that threatens to destroy her family forever."

About this title

Synopsis:

In this confessional memoir, Michelle Tea tales the reader back to the city of her childhood -- Chesea, Massachusetts, Boston's ugly, scrappy little sister, and a place where time and hope can only be spent on keeping things from getting any worse.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seal Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1580050735
• ISBN 13: 9781580050739
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296