Rose of no man's land
By Michelle Tea
Subjects: Poor teenagers, Lesbian teenagers, Dropouts, Young adult fiction, Lesbian youth, Teenage girls, Fiction, lesbian, Short Stories, Fiction, Stonewall Book Awards, Fiction, romance, general, American literature, Poor youth, LGBTQ novels, Lesbians, fiction, Friendship
Description: 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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