{"product_id":"the-passionate-mistakes-and-intricate-corruption-of-one-girl-in-america-new-edition-isbn-9781584350521","title":"The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, new edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe critically acclaimed adventures of an ex-Goth, ex-straight-girl, ex-lesbian, ex-Catholic schoolgirl on the road in 1990s America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Semiotext(e) to critical acclaim in 1998, Michelle Tea's debut novel \u003ci\u003eThe Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America\u003c\/i\u003e quickly established Tea as an exciting new literary talent and the voice of a new generation of queer, bisexual, transgendered, and straight youth. The Village Voice called Passionate Mistakes “the legacy of thirty years of feminism,” and Eileen Myles, writing in the Nation, hailed the novel as “a hunk of lyric information that coolly, then frantically, describes the car wreck of her generation. ”The too-smart, caustic, and radiant narrator of Passionate Mistakes is, at twenty-seven, an ex-Goth, ex-drummer, ex-straight girl, ex-lesbian separatist vegan graduate of vocational high school in the working class town of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Written with lyrical precision and charm, the novel describes a journey with no final destination, a fast-paced and picaresque road trip that yields a redemptive vision of an America that has nothing left to offer its youth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of a Semiotext(e) classic includes critical essays by Brandon Stosuy and Eileen Myles that describe Michelle Tea's achievement as a literary innovator and cultural icon. Michelle Tea is the prolific author of the Lambda Award-winning Valencia, the graphic novel \u003ci\u003eRent Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, the “inspired queer bildungsroman” \u003ci\u003eRose of No Man's Land\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books. She was a 1999 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for fiction. Her critically acclaimed books have appeared on “books of the year” lists in publications ranging from the Voice Literary Supplement to the San Francisco Chonicle. She lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003eAt 27, Michelle Tea is an ex-prostitute, ex-Goth, ex-drummer for Dirt Bike Gang, ex-straight girl, ex-lesbian separatist vegan, ex-Catholic schoolgirl, and ex-resident of Chelsea, Boston's working class slum. She is poised, with this breakthrough debut volume, to become the spokesperson for America's young queer girl mutant horde.—\u003ci\u003eNew Books Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of burning intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSentences that snap, and pop off the page to create a wholly formed, gruesomely real universe between the book covers.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003cb\u003eChas Bowie\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePortland Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first time I read \u003ci\u003eThe Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America\u003c\/i\u003e, I thought, Yes. Finally. No book has gotten closer to describing my own experience as a teen American girl, even though I came of age on a different continent than Michelle Tea, and never slept with another girl, and never worked as a prostitute. She captures something so close to the core of contemporary female experience that I want to get trite about it. I want to gush. I want to call her the Voice of a Generation, the New Jack Kerouac.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBookslut\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe legacy of thirty years of feminism.... Rollicking and blistering, pained and hilarious, wired and wild-eyed and smashingly good.\u003c\/p\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLaurie Stone\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e—Michelle Tea is the prolific author of the Lambda Award-winning \u003ci\u003eValencia,\u003c\/i\u003e the graphic novel \u003ci\u003eRent Girl,\u003c\/i\u003e the \"inspired queer bildungsroman\" Rose of No Man's Land, and other books. She was a 1999 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for fiction. Her critically acclaimed books have appeared on \"books of the year\" lists in publications ranging from the \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e to the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEileen Myles, named by BUST magazine \"the rock star of modern poetry,\" is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including \u003ci\u003eChelsea Girls, Cool for You, Sorry, Tree,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNot Me\u003c\/i\u003e (Semiotext(e), 1991), and is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Fuck You\u003c\/i\u003e (Semiotext(e), 1995). Myles was head of the writing program at University of California, San Diego, from 2002 to 2007, and she has written extensively on art and writing and the cultural scene. Most recently, she received a fellowship from the Andy Warhol\/Creative Capital Foundation.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44865683488997,"sku":"NP9781584350521","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781584350521.jpg?v=1767740883","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-passionate-mistakes-and-intricate-corruption-of-one-girl-in-america-new-edition-isbn-9781584350521","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}