The Chelsea Whistle

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:The Chelsea WhistleISBN13:9781580052399ISBN10:1580052398Author:Tea, Michelle (Author)Description:In This Gritty, Confessional Memoir, Michelle Tea Takes The Reader Back To The City Of Her Childhood: Chelsea, Massachusetts--A Place Where Time And Hope Are Spent On Things Not Getting Any Worse Tea's Girlhood Is Shaped By The Rough Fabric Of The Neighborhood And By Its Characters--The Soft Vulnerability Of Her Sister Madeline And Her Quietly Brutal Polish Father; The Doddering, Sometimes Violent Nuns Of Our Lady Of Assumption; Marisol Lewis From The Projects By The Creek; And Johnna Latrotta, The Tough-As-Nails Italian Dance-School Teacher Who Offered A Slim Chance For Escape To Every Young Chelsea Girl In Tulle And Tap Shoes Told In Tea's Trademark Loose-Tongued, Lyrical Style, This Memoir Both Celebrates And Annihilates One Girl's Tightrope Walk Out Of A Working-Class Slum And The Lessons She Carries With Her With Wry Humor And A Hard-Fought Wisdom, Tea Limns The Extravagant Peril Of A Dramatic Adolescence With The Private, Catastrophic Secret Harbored Within The Walls Of Her Family's Home--A Secret That Threatens To Destroy Her Family Forever With Wry Humor And Hard-Fought Wisdom, The Author Of Valencia Spins A Magical Web Around Her Tumultuous Childhood In Chelsea, Massachusetts--Boston's Ugly, Scrappy Little Sister Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Seal Press (CA)Publication Date:2008-03-01Weight:0.96 lbsDimensions:0.8'' H x 8.29'' L x 5.71'' WNumber of Pages:384Language:English

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