Rose of No Man's Land
Author: Michelle Tea
Desc: 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.