Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class by Tea, Michelle

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781580056663)

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Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class by Tea, Michelle

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class

$16.99
Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class by Tea, Michelle

Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class

$16.99
Format: Paperback
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An urgent testament to the trials of life for women living without 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 writers offer their different stories not for sympathy or sadness, but an unvarnished portrait of how it was, is, and will be for generations of women growing up working class in America. These wide-ranging essays cover everything from selling blood for grocery money to the culture shock of "jumping" class. Contributors include Dorothy Allison, Bee Lavender, Eileen Myles, and Daisy Hern瀑z.

Author: Michelle Tea
ISBN-10: 1580056660
ISBN-13: 9781580056663
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2018
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.90d
By Michelle Tea
By Michelle Tea
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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), 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 nonprofit 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 Claire, n+1, xoJane, California Sunday Magazine, Buzzfeed, and many other print and web publications.

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