![]() ![]() For example, at one point, she has a job at a courier company, and she wants to lose it, but they won't fire her. There are so many strange but still very real characters, and the author tells us what she was thinking at these times in her life in a really deadpan way. I wasn't expecting to laugh a lot whilst reading Valencia, but although some parts were sad and some of the people described were troubled, other parts were hilarious. I wouldn't read this if you require a plot to get along with a book, because the narrative here isn't going anywhere, it's just a continuous description of things that happen and people the author knows. It's split into chapters but is told in quite a stream-of-consciousness style - she'll start out telling one story but will diverge into telling us umpteen other people's stories in between. Valencia is a memoir by Michelle Tea, about her time living in San Francisco, falling in and out of love with a succession of girls, going to various nightclubs, parties and gay pride marches, and losing several jobs. Michelle Tea gives some background to her memoirs and talks about her move into writing fiction. ![]()
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