But as time destabilizes, we’re irresistibly sucked into an alternate universe where the byproducts of modern living cause illness and alienation, the natural world has been all but eradicated, poisonous mists roll off the Pacific, and compost-powered cars trace the roads… Gliding deftly through issues of addiction and recovery, erasure and assimilation, environmental devastation and mass delusion about our own pernicious tendencies, this is a genre- and reality-bending story of quiet triumph for the perennial screw-up and unabashed outsider. “Churning through lovers, baggies, and bottles, writer Michelle Leduski runs for LA with the end of the world on her heels… In what seems at first like a lightly fictionalized memoir, Tea traverses ground familiar to readers of her previous work: booze, drugs, sex, protracted adolescence, and ’90s queer culture.
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