This tension emphasizes the reckless force of youth as well as the waning freedom of life before cell phones and the full-blown Internet, making this book an important portrait of the late ’90s. As Michelle gets drunk one evening, like most evenings, she watches the sunset from the doorway of the bar: “The hue of the sky was the visual equivalent of the alcohol settling into her body-dusky blue shot with gold and darkening to navy.” In Tea’s skillfully loose, lusty prose, Michelle is both vulnerable and brash, blitzing through lovers and bags of heroin, terrified but also convinced of her own invincibility. In the first half of Tea’s ( Valencia) autobiographical latest, set in San Francisco’s Mission District in 1999, sex and drugs are the primary occupations of the protagonist, also named Michelle.
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