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"In this memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusetts - Boston's ugly, scrappy little sister and a place where time and hope can only keep things from getting any worse.".
"Tea's girlhood is shaped by the rough fabric of the neighborhood 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 the Assumption; Marisol from the projects by the creek; and 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 humor and a hard-fought wisdom, Tea limns the extravagant peril of a dramatic adolescence with the private, catastrophe secret harbored within the walls of her family's home - a secret that threatens to destroy her family forever."--BOOK JACKET.
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Social life and customs, American Authors, Homes and haunts, Lesbians, Childhood and youth, Biography, American Women authors, Authors, american, Authors, biography, Massachusetts, social life and customsPeople
Michelle TeaPlaces
Chelsea, Chelsea (Mass.), Massachusetts, United StatesTimes
20th centuryShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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The Chelsea Whistle
March 28, 2008, Seal Press
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1580052398 9781580052399
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The Chelsea whistle
2002, Seal Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West
in English
- 1st Seal Press ed.
1580050735 9781580050739
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"Childhood is morbid."
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