The Chelsea Whistle by Michelle Tea

The Chelsea Whistle

Michelle Tea

In this gritty, confessional memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusetts–a place where time and hope are spent on things not 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 Assumption; Marisol Lewis from the projects by the creek; and Johnna Latrotta, 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, catastrophic secret harbored within the walls of her family’s home–a secret that threatens to destroy her family forever.

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Details

ISBN 1580052398
Genre Award Winner; Autobiography/Biography
Copyright Date 2002
Publication Date 10-Apr-08
Publisher Seal Press
Format Trade Paperback
No. of Pages 326
Notes ‘The Chelsea Whistle,’ was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in the autobiography category
Language English
Rating Great
Subject Autobiography
BookID 1979

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