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Michelle wasn’t sure when everyone start hanging out at the Albion.

Black Wave by Michelle Tea

April 15, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I loved this book. I think you might too if you’re a fan of self-referential books with a sense of humor and wryness about them, but especially books like I Love Dick by Chris Krause and After Claude by Iris Owens. So the book is a third person account of a mostly true or probably true or kind of true story of Michelle Tea as a mostly functional drug addict and alcoholic in Los Angeles in the late 1990s. It’s not an addiction, except that it is, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Black Wave, Michelle Tea

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:201 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Black Wave, Michelle Tea ·
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