The 25th anniversary edition of Michelle Tea''s classic coming of age memoir - 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, BabyFleeing 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. ''If you want to know how dangerous and great and awful it is to be a girl, you''ll scarf Valencia right up'' 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