Tea Stacey D'Erasmo Paperback - 256 pages (1 October, 2000) Women's Press Ltd,The; ISBN: 0704346737

'Coming-of-Age stories usually move in a straight line, if only because it's easier to tell them that way. Stacey D'Erasmo's debut novel tea is far more faithful to the way selfhood evolves in circular and often absurdly comical stages, D'Erasmo unspools the life of Isabel Gold in three distinct phases: a child of eight who loses her troubled mother to suicide; a teen discovering she likes girls as much as pot and Joni Mitchell; and a 22-year-old scrambling to keep her bohemian dreams and her relationship with a cranky greek girlfriend alive in Lower Manhattan. With wry humour and acute lyricism that recall Llorrie Moore, D'Erasmo reveals how life's true progress is marked in equal measure by embarrassment, laughter and tears' Harper's Bazaar
'Written with a strength and daring that makes reading it a breathtaking pleasure . . . Tea will no doubt be remembered as one of the significant novels of the year' San Francisco Chronicle
'I have read a whole lot of contemporary first novels and there's not one I would have characterized as flawless until I read Tea by Stacey D'Erasmo' Jane Vandenburgh, Newsday
'Stacey D'Erasmo is a terrific writer' Dorothy Allison

Paperback, Excellent condition for age