Valencia

'An exuberant, hilarious record of an unprecedented and mutinous time in queer history' Maggie Nelson

By: Michelle Tea, Maggie Nelson (Foreword by)

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Paperback | 2 September 2025

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288 Pages

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19.8 x 12.8 x 2.1

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The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea's classic coming-of-age story, now with a foreword by Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts

'One of the few truly life changing books I've encountered' Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby

Fleeing Tucson and her troublesome on-and-off ex-girlfriend, Michelle lands in queer San Francisco's riotous underbelly, stumbling through her early twenties in a haze of nightlife, drug adventures, scams and a string of hookups, break-ups and make-ups. As butches and dykes spin in and out of her orbit, she considers the force and casual cruelty of their desires and her own. Heady, beer-sticky and brimming with life, Valencia is a sharply observed and piercingly funny chronicle of a year lived close to the bone.

About the Author

Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books, including Black Wave, Knocking Myself Up, and Against Memoir. Valencia received the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction and was adapted into a feature film.

Industry Reviews

'Valencia is one of the few true life-changer books I've encountered. One of those books that gets casually slipped to you, and then, a couple hours later, you understand you've been living all wrong' -- Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby
'If you want to know how dangerous and great and awful it is to be a girl you'll scarf Valencia right up. The street today is full of girls if you haven't noticed' -- Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls
'Michelle Tea is an intoxicating writer, delivering sentences that land with the snap and force of a punch' - Guardian
'I consider Michelle Tea a literary MOTHER. I will forever tip my hat to her and the timeless and immortal text that is Valencia' -- Brontez Purnell, author of 100 Boyfriends

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