Rose of No Man's Land [Paperback]

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 onThe 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-adjustedMy So-Called Life” (Publishers Weekly),Rose of No Man’s Landis brim­ming with snarky observations and soulful musings on contemporary teenage America.

PRAISE FORROSE OF NO MAN’S LAND

Rose[of No Man’s Land] is balls-out from the start . . . Not for the faint of heart, Tea’s writing is raw, funny, and tragic, but never forced.A-. —Entertainment Weekly(Editor’s Choice)

It made me entirely happy to be alive . . . This book is deliriously true. To its author I say: You brought the female inside out. It’s such an incredible act. It feels like a first time . . . What a miracle of a book. —BookForum