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A review by sleepingnerd
Valencia by Michelle Tea
5.0
Well, this sure is a whirlwind of a book.
I picked it up because of Book Riot's read harder challenge, on the prompt "read an award-winning book from the year you were born". I probably wouldn't even know it existed otherwise, but it did win the 2000 Lambda Award in lesbian fiction.
The author takes you along for the ride as she tells you of a year in her life in the dyke world of 90’s San Francisco, US. There's falling in love and falling out of it, passions that burn bright and intense before consuming themselves, heartbreak and heartbreaking. Oh, also drugs and sex. Lots of it.
Her life seems like a hurricane, one thing after another, all of them intense and exciting. She acted like a asshole and had others act like assholes to her, one questionable decision after the other. The final was abrupt, but then the whole book was. Her writing is passionate and beautiful but also intimate, like a friend telling you her wild stories among beer and laughs.
I can only say this made me want to go out and be loudly queer, which seems to be the point, really.
I picked it up because of Book Riot's read harder challenge, on the prompt "read an award-winning book from the year you were born". I probably wouldn't even know it existed otherwise, but it did win the 2000 Lambda Award in lesbian fiction.
The author takes you along for the ride as she tells you of a year in her life in the dyke world of 90’s San Francisco, US. There's falling in love and falling out of it, passions that burn bright and intense before consuming themselves, heartbreak and heartbreaking. Oh, also drugs and sex. Lots of it.
Her life seems like a hurricane, one thing after another, all of them intense and exciting. She acted like a asshole and had others act like assholes to her, one questionable decision after the other. The final was abrupt, but then the whole book was. Her writing is passionate and beautiful but also intimate, like a friend telling you her wild stories among beer and laughs.
I can only say this made me want to go out and be loudly queer, which seems to be the point, really.