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Editorial ReviewsProduct Description Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a hungry machine, taking in her hometown of Mogsfield, Massachusetts – a place that has shamelessly surrendered to neon signs, theme restaurants, and cookie-cutter chain stores. Cynical but naive, Trisha observes the disappointing world from the ignored perspective of a teenager: creepy guys, the unfathomable sadness of the elderly, illegal tattoos, and the wild kingdom of mall culture. After being hired and abruptly fired from the most popular shop at the absurd and kaleidoscopic Square One Mall, Trisha finds herself linked up with a chain-smoking, physically stunted mall rat named Rose, and her life shifts into manic overdrive. A whirlwind exploration of poverty and dropouts, Rose of No Man’s Land is the world according to Trisha – a furious love story between two weirdo girls, brimming with snarky observations and soulful wonderings on the dazzle-flash emptiness of contemporary culture. Similar Products
Customer ReviewsC. J. Pearmon Said: Introspective ( Jul. 20th 2009 ) What starts out as a coming-of-age young adult novel turns into a life-changing love story that leaves the reader with more questions than it answers. Michelle Tea writes an excellent book that uncovers a wide-range of female characters and psychologies that explore a world seemingly against them. Tea also examines the effects of class differences, yet veils her more serious themes with an entertaining plot and fast-moving story. Just when the story seems to become predictable, a new twist takes the characters in new directions. Rose of No Man's Land takes a simple casts of people and explores their unique perspectives, forming a novel that turns itself into an introspective, yet entertaining, reading experience. Michael Delong Said: Ravishing Onslaught of Words ( Apr. 12th 2009 ) A ravishing onslaught of words shot through with brilliance and a sensitive, careful crafting of a voice. The going gets a little patchy on occasion, and suddenly Michelle Tea, the author, supersedes the narrator she has created, and we are captive as she lectures on, for example, the evils of television, declaring clumsily that it has stolen her soul. Despite these lapses into unacknowledged authorial intrusions, the voice is still quite convincing and the story gripping from beginning to end. The social comment is also not necessarily unwelcome, just not always befitting of a sheltered ninth-grade girl from a small town. The book is also genuinely funny and crammed with scores of laugh-out-loud moments and ecstatic strings of words. Marina Kushner Said: A Teenage Lesbian Romance ( May. 21st 2007 ) This young adult novel lacks the all-tied-up ending, much like real life. You'll love watching the teenage lesbian relationship evolve. Michael K. Smith Said: "After high school comes life. Don't ask me what I'm supposed to do with it." ( Apr. 29th 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. Karen E. Baddeley Said: Rose of No Man's Land ( Mar. 27th 2007 ) This was an excellent novel! Very unique writing style and point of view. |
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