Rose of No Man's Land | 
|  | | | Title: | Rose of No Man's Land | | Author: | Michelle Tea | | Publisher: | Harvest Books | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 05 February, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0156030934 / 9780156030939 | | List Price: | $14.00 | | You Save: | $2.80 | | Amazon Price: | $11.20 | |
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Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to be on The Real World, Trisha struggles to find her own place among the neon signs, theme restaurants, and cookie-cutter chain stores of her hometown. After being hired and abruptly fired from the most popular clothing shop at the local mall, Trisha befriends a chain-smoking misfit named Rose, and her life shifts into manic overdrive. A “postmillennial, class-adjusted My So-Called Life” (Publishers Weekly), Rose of No Man’s Land is brimming with snarky observations and soulful musings on contemporary teenage America.
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• A Teenage Lesbian Romance 21 May, 2007
This young adult novel lacks the all-tied-up ending, much like real life. You'll love watching the teenage lesbian relationship evolve.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2CRUEQ9QIOT70
• Why, Michelle Tea, Why? 08 January, 2007
This book made me want to stab my eyes out. I read Valencia a few weeks ago, and was hoping for more of the fabulously insightful and beautiful descriptions ("Iris went through girls like a slash and burn farmer." How cool can you get?) that made it a good book. The drama of all of the sex and drugs and love was certainly exciting, but left alone, it would have been somewhat pointless. This is precisely why I do not understand why Michelle Tea would abandon her poet's voice to become a fourteen-year-old girl.
As a piece of YA fiction, this book is perhaps somewhat better than the rest because it's different. It's not neat and tidy (because since when is reality?), and it doesn't perpetuate all the gender roles and heterosexist crap that so thickly pervade teen pop culture. It's nice to hear from someone other than a straight, feminine middle-class white girl for once.
PS: I don't even believe the person who wrote the official Booklist review even read the book (or Valencia, for that matter). Some of those statements about the plot are flat-out wrong. But now I'm just being picky.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A531QUIMIZXIL
• Rose Of No Man's Land 28 March, 2007
This was an excellent novel! Very unique writing style and point of view.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AS0BUW24YL1CU
• Nice Read 02 January, 2007
So I wasn't planning to read another Michelle Tea book after Valencia, but it was a Christmas gift and I read this in about three days. I liked it, but it was kind of awkward. The word "wicked" as in "very" is thrown around way too much, which is kind of annoying, and Michelle Tea did this thing that I don't really understand if it was supposed to be some kind of irony or what, but she described all these stores in the story, without using their real names. Hot Topic became Dark Subject or something like that, and Jack in the Box became Clown in a Box. It was just kind of weird. It was a fun read though, right up to the amusing, repeated use of the name of the store where the main character got a job for an afternoon, called Ohmigod! The whole story takes place over a couple days, mostly one, though, where Trisha (main x-ter) meets this weird little freak named Rose and they have a bit of an adventure with crystal meth and booze and all female make out sessions. It's discovery for Trisha and entertainment for the reader, but at the end of the book, I'm kind of like "Ohmigod! What was that? Is there a point to this story? Does there need to be? What's the deal?" Like I said, I had fun reading it, but just like Valencia, I have mixed feelings about it and its worthiness. I just wonder, if Michelle Tea weren't sort of famous in this particular region of the literary world, would this story have even gotten published? I don't want to be the nitpicky bitch about her writing, but I couldn't help but be totally distracted by some of the typos and spelling errors that were just really bad and "wicked" obvious. Who edited this thing? With all due respect, I kind of wished I had borrowed it from the library, since there's only so much room on my bookcase. I do like Michelle as a writer and enjoyed this story, but I think she could have put more thought into this book and the details I mentioned.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2HOVW0FZ24L4K
• "after High School Comes Life. Don't Ask Me What I'm Supposed To Do With It." 29 April, 2007
Tea is spot-on at getting inside the head and life of fourteen-year-old Trisha, aimless, frustrated, and rather trashy resident of a decaying Massachusetts mill town. Her hypochondriac mother never leaves the sofa except to dig her welfare checks out of the mail, her relentlessly optimistic older sister is a graduated hairdresser whose goal is being selected by a reality TV show, and her view of the world is filtered through the local mall -- where, with the assistance of her sister's Olympics-level lies, she manages to get a job at the most popular teen clothing store. Until she's fired before lunch the first day. But all this is a character-establishing lead-in to Trisha's discovery of Rose, a scrawny, fearless, adventuresome girl with a lesbian mother and a cigarette voice. The relationship between the two -- established within hours of their introduction and apparently played out before the next morning -- will have evangelical parents screaming to their local library about the "homosexual agenda," but, hey: This is life. The author also has an ear for sardonic description (a vodka/energy drink combo?) and an eye for painting character portraits that come to life. Don't worry about the putative morality these girls don't much subscribe to -- just enjoy the book. It's a messy, questing coming-of-age you won't soon forget.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2GBJQ9THOYDAJ
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