Without a Net, 2nd Edition
The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2018
Summary
An urgent proclamation of what life is like for American women without the security of a financial safety net
Indie icon Michelle Tea–whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts–shares these fierce, honest, tender essays written by women who can’t go home to the suburbs when ends don’t meet. When jobs are scarce and the money has dwindled, these writers have nowhere to go but below the poverty line. The wr…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580056663 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580056660 |
| Author: | Michelle Tea |
| Publisher: | Seal Press |
| Imprint: | Seal Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 142mm x 211mm |
| Series: | Live Girls |
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Critics Review
“Encouraging and enlightening”– Philadelphia Tribune
So raw, so fresh, so riveting… An important book for any woman who’s grown up - or is growing up - in America. - Vendela Vida
Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea is the author of five memoirs: The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Valencia (now a film), The Chelsea Whistle (Seal Press), Rent Girl and How to Grow Up (Penguin/Plume), currently in development with Amazon Studios. Her novels include Mermaid in Chelsea Creek and Girl at the Bottom of the Sea, part of a Young Adult fantasy trilogy published by McSweeneys, and Rose of No Man’s Land. Black Wave is a dystopic memoir-fiction hybrid. Forthcoming works include Castle on the River Vistula, the final installment of the YA series, and Modern Tarot, a tarot how-to and spell book published by Harper Elixir.
Tea is the curator of the Amethyst Editions imprint at Feminist Press. She founded the literary non-profit RADAR Productions and the international Sister Spit performance tours, and is the former editor of Sister Spit Books, an imprint of City Lights. She created Mutha Magazine, an online publication about real-life parenting. Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, Cosmopolitan, The Believer, Marie Clare, n+1, xoJane, California Sunday Magazine, Buzzfeed, and many other print and web publications.Returns
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