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Michelle Tea

Los Angeles
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Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

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By A Bell, Sara Stridsberg, Gabriel Tallent, Michelle Tea
| buff.ly
This beautiful novel set in the North of England in the early 1960s follows Thomas Flett, a 20-year-old shrimp fisherman who aspires to become a folk singer. He lives hand to mouth and in close quarters with his curmudgeonly mother, who had him when she was 15 and won’t tell him who his father was.
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Little F by Michelle Tea

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By Michelle Tea, Nina McConigley, Judith Hermann, Laura Restrepo
| buff.ly
By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and hope-filled, the latest from Tea (Valencia) follows a 13-year-old runaway’s search for a queer paradise. In his hometown of Phoenix, Ariz., Spencer dreams of a “mythically accepting place like Provincetown, Massachusetts,” believing that there, he would be accepted as gay. After he’s beaten so badly by a classmate that he’s sent to the hospital, he decides to make his dream a reality.
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When the Fireflies Dance

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By A Bell, Sara Stridsberg, Gabriel Tallent, Michelle Tea
| Publishers Weekly
Aisha Hassan. Scout, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-1-6680-4328-8 In this hair-raising debut from Hassan, a family of indentured servants is torn apart in contemporary Pakistan. Work at the primitive brickworks is backbreaking for seven-year-old Lalloo’s parents. What’s more, usurious loans force entire generations to spend their lives trapped in a cycle of debt. When his older brother, Jugnu, speaks out against the exploitation, Jugnu is beaten to death by the overseer’s goons.
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