Praise: “…impossible to put down…Trisha is a raucous observer of everything from mall culture minutiae to her sister’s reality TV dreams. Nothing gets by her.” – People Magazine
“Rose is balls-out from the start…Tea’s writing is raw, funny, and tragic, but never forced. Her memoirist’s eye yields fiction that reads true. Grade: A-“ – Entertainment Weekly (Critics Pick)
“Trisha Driscoll has more adventures in one day than most of us do all year. When the 14-year-old vows to make a friend, she never imagines it’ll be Rose, a chains-smoking mall rat who introduces her to the scary world of hitchhiking and first love.” – Teen People
“…compellingly honest and told with a voice so pure that it would be ignominious to overlook it…a sincere achievement.” – San Francisco Chronicle
“Michelle Tea's new Rose of No Man's Land is both a riotously funny coming-of-age story and a poignant cautionary tale that smacks of ‘there but for the grace of God’ heartbreak… it flows with an easy, unpretentious rhythm that crackles with off-the-cuff digressions and ruminations…Tea manages to balance Trisha's snarky edge with moments of a sweetly sad, naive vulnerability that beautifully capture those mercurial midteen years. What gives Rose of No Man's Land its power and resonance is that it is fueled by both anger and yearning.” – Boston Globe
“[Tea] follows the snarky and disillusioned 14-year-old Trisha as she learns about life, love, and getting out of the house.” – Ms. Magazine
“Tea has filtered first kisses and blue-collar camaraderie through her engaging charisma, transforming them into rapturous punk odysseys…” – Village Voice
Rose of No Man's Land
By Michelle Tea
February 14, 2006ISBN: 1-59692-160-9
Format: Hardcover Genre: Fiction Pages: 200
Price: $22.00
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About the Book
Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a hungry machine, taking in her hometown of Mogsfield, Massachusetts – a place that has shamelessly surrendered to neon signs, theme restaurants, and cookie-cutter chain stores. Cynical but naive, Trisha observes the disappointing world from the ignored perspective of a teenager: creepy guys, the unfathomable sadness of the elderly, illegal tattoos, and the wild kingdom of mall culture.
After being hired and abruptly fired from the most popular shop at the absurd and kaleidoscopic Square One Mall, Trisha finds herself linked up with a chain-smoking, physically stunted mall rat named Rose, and her life shifts into manic overdrive.
A whirlwind exploration of poverty and dropouts, Rose of No Man’s Land is the world according to Trisha – a furious love story between two weirdo girls, brimming with snarky observations and soulful wonderings on the dazzle-flash emptiness of contemporary culture.
About the Author
Michelle Tea is the author of four memoirs, including the Lambda-award winning Valencia and the illustrated Rent Girl, which is currently being developed for television. Tea is the founder of the notorious all-girl performance tour Sister Spit, which wrecked poetic havoc across the USA at the end of the last century. She continues to curate literary events nationally, and hosts and cookie-baker for the monthly Radar Reading Series at the San Francisco Public Library. Rose of No Man’s Land is her first novel."Author's Website