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A Literary Hub Notable Small Press Book of 2025
A new epic novel about a teenage queer runaway from cult classic author of Black Wave and Valencia Michelle Tea.
In Spencer’s fantasies, the breezy, queer streets of Provincetown, MA, are utopia, a place where he can be free. Yet when a violent attack in his suburban Arizona schoolyard sends him to the hospital, he decides queer utopia can’t wait. And one night, with the help of his best friend, the teenage witch Joy, he hitches a ride to find it.
The cross-country road odyssey that follows brings Spencer from new moon rituals in Arizona canyons to Texas bus stations, from the luxe drag stages of Houston’s Montrose district to the jazz-soaked streets of the French Quarter and beyond. This new novel from Michelle Tea tells the story, by turns raw, romantic, and sweet, of a sheltered boy taking his first leap into queer life, among all the complicated queers who live it.
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By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and hope-filled, the latest from Tea (Valencia) follows a 13-year-old runaway's search for a queer paradise. In his hometown of Phoenix, Ariz., Spencer dreams of a "mythically accepting place like Provincetown, Massachusetts," believing that there, he would be accepted as gay. After he's beaten so badly by a classmate that he's sent to the hospital, he decides to make his dream a reality. Armed with cash from his only friend, Joy, along with a tall tale about an uncle in Provincetown, Spencer hitches a ride with two "hippie boys" he met at a party. The pair then steal his money and ditch him outside Austin, Tex. He walks into town, where a man tries to hustle him at the bus station and he's saved by Velvet, an older handsome queer boy, and they travel together to New Orleans. The promise of Provincetown still looms in Spencer's mind, but Velvet's company in New Orleans helps him to discover he's not alone. Each episode in the colorful and gritty narrative captures the reader's attention, but the main attraction is Spencer's barbed voice: "I was born to solid, stable, functional, miserable straight people." This coming-of-age story soars.
