![]() ![]() ![]() The gritty glittering landscape of artists and radicals is gradually being supplanted by the sterile manufactured cool favored by dot-com boomers who spread like a fungus, displacing the neighborhood’s previous crop of displacers, to which Michelle belongs, “a tribe bound not by ethnicity but by other things-desire, art, sex, poverty, politics.” In what seems at first like a lightly fictionalized memoir, Tea ( How to Grow Up, 2015, etc.) traverses ground familiar to readers of her previous work: booze, drugs, sex, protracted adolescence, and '90s queer culture. In 1999, San Francisco’s Mission District is rapidly gentrifying. Churning through lovers, baggies, and bottles, writer Michelle Leduski runs for LA with the end of the world on her heels. ![]()
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