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Rose of No Man's Land
Michelle Tea

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crowyhead, August 18, 2006

Trisha's life is not exactly thrilling. Her mother is a hypochrondriac on disability, and her father is a junkie and is rumored to be in Louisiana somewhere. The best thing that can be said for Donnie, her mother's boyfriend, is that he doesn't try to molest Trisha or her older sister, Kristy. Kristy's the only one who has any ambition -- and her main ambition is to get on MTV's "The Real World" by documenting how screwed up her family is. Trisha feels like she's ready for something -- anything! -- to happen, and when she meets Rose she gets her wish...

This is sort of a rough book to review without giving too much away. The first half had me laughing out loud and shaking my head at Trisha's attitude and the way that she describes the things around her; her narrative voice is fantastic. It's very similar to Tea's style in her other books, but Trisha does feel like her own character rather than a stand-in for Michelle Tea. The second half of this had me holding my breath hoping that nothing too terribly horrible was going to happen. I did really, really like it, though.

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