In this gritty, confessional memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader
back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusetts,a place
where time and hope are spent on things not getting any worse.
Tea's girlhood is shaped by the rough fabric of the neighbourhood
and by its characters,the 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 humour 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 home,a secret that threatens to destroy
her family forever.
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