Valencia (novel)

{{Short description|2000 Lambda Literary Award-winning novel by Michelle Tea}}

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| author = Michelle Tea

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Novel

| publisher = Seal Press

| release_date = 2000

| media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)

| pages = 216 pp (first edition, hardback)

| isbn = 1-58005-238-X

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Valencia is a 2000 Lambda Literary Award-winning{{Cite web | url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/07/09/lambda-literary-awards-2000/ |title = 13th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|date = 2001-07-10}} novel by Michelle Tea. It is an autobiographical novel detailing the narrator's experiences in San Francisco's queer subculture. It includes experimentation with consensual sado-masochism after the author meets Petra, a knife-wielder; as well as Willa, a tormented poet; and Iris, a young butch who escaped from a repressive southern upbringing to San Francisco.Michelle Tea: Valencia: Seattle: Seal Press: 2001: back cover