{"product_id":"the-chelsea-whistle-paperback","title":"The Chelsea Whistle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichelle Tea\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelle Tea\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five memoirs: \u003ci\u003eThe Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Valencia\u003c\/i\u003e (now a film), \u003ci\u003eThe Chelsea Whistle\u003c\/i\u003e (Seal Press), \u003ci\u003eRent Girl\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow to Grow Up\u003c\/i\u003e (Penguin\/Plume), with Amazon Studios. Her novels include \u003ci\u003eMermaid in Chelsea Creek\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGirl at the Bottom of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, part of a Young Adult fantasy trilogy published by McSweeneys, and \u003ci\u003eRose of No Man's Land\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eBlack Wave\u003c\/i\u003e is a dystopic memoir-fiction hybrid. Forthcoming works include \u003ci\u003eCastle on the River Vistula\u003c\/i\u003e, the final installment of the YA series, and \u003ci\u003eModern Tarot\u003c\/i\u003e, a tarot how-to and spell book published by Harper Elixir. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tea is the curator of the Amethyst Editions imprint at Feminist Press. She founded the literary nonprofit RADAR Productions and the international Sister Spit performance tours, and is the former editor of Sister Spit Books, an imprint of City Lights. She created \u003ci\u003eMutha Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, an online publication about real-life parenting. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's, Cosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, xoJane, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia Sunday Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, Buzzfeed, and many other print and web publications.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.29 x 5.71 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760494248224,"sku":"9781580052399","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a3b845c8df040d5d5e4feedf7c7864e8.webp?v=1780181465","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-chelsea-whistle-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}