num_pages: 216
description: Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Through a string of narrative moments, Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the South in a dust cloud of drama; and Iris's ex, Magdalena Squalor, to whom Michelle turns when Iris breaks her heart. Valencia conveys a blend of youthful urgency and apocalyptic apathy.
language: English
title: Valencia
titlecomplete: Valencia
genres: LGBT, Feminism, Gay, Lesbian, Queer Lit, Novels, Fiction, Science Fiction, Queer, Womens
ratings_count: 5557
places: San Francisco, California
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Fiction
publisher: Seal Press