{"product_id":"valencia-an-exuberant-hilarious-record-of-an-unprecedented-and-mutinous-time-in-queer-history-maggie-nelson-9781805226819","title":"Valencia: 'An exuberant, hilarious record of an unprecedented and mutinous time in queer history' Maggie Nelson","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michelle Tea\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Profile Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea''s classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts''One of the few truly life changing books I''ve encountered'' Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, BabyFleeing Tucson and her troublesome on-and-off ex-girlfriend, Michelle lands in queer San Francisco''s riotous underbelly, stumbling through her early twenties in a haze of nightlife, drug adventures, scams and a string of hookups, break-ups and make-ups. As butches and dykes spin in and out of her orbit, she considers the force and casual cruelty of their desires and her own. Heady, beer-sticky and brimming with life, Valencia is a sharply observed and piercingly funny chronicle of a year lived close to the bone. ''If you want to know how dangerous and great and awful it is to be a girl, you''ll scarf Valencia right up'' Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls''Michelle Tea is an intoxicating writer, delivering sentences that land with the snap and force of a punch'' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Profile Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45847815553175,"sku":"9781805226819","price":325.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781805226819.webp?v=1769297137","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/valencia-an-exuberant-hilarious-record-of-an-unprecedented-and-mutinous-time-in-queer-history-maggie-nelson-9781805226819","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}