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Black Wave

by Michelle Tea
Feminist. Sept. 2016. 320p. ISBN 9781558619395. pap. $18.95; ebk. ISBN 9781558619463. F
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The author of ten books exploring queer culture, pop culture, feminism, and more, plus founder of the literary nonprofit RADAR Productions and cocreator of Sister Spit, Tea makes great literary content from the stuff of her on-the-edge life. This book started as a memoir aimed at examining the end of a long relationship and her sense of finally transitioning to adulthood. Soon, however, it morphed into a closely observed novel starring the hyperkinetic, probing Michelle, who moves from major drug taking at a San Francisco bar to a lucid grappling with life and love. It takes a moment to adjust to third-person Michelle-as-protagonist, but the pleasures of the prose, which is energized and exuberant (one might even say goofy), are the reward.
VERDICT Tea paints a terrific portrait, but her great gift is how she makes readers look more closely at themselves.
Reviewed by Barbara Hoffert , Nov 15, 2016
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