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  <title><![CDATA[Rose of No Man's Land]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to be on &lt;i&gt;The Real World,&lt;/i&gt; Trisha struggles to find her own place among the neon signs, theme restau&#173;rants, and cookie-cutter chain stores of her hometown.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;After being hired and abruptly fired from the most popular clothing shop at the local mall, Trisha befriends a chain-smoking misfit named Rose, and her life shifts into manic overdrive. A &amp;#8220;postmillennial, class-adjusted &lt;i&gt;My So-Called Life&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#8221; (&lt;i&gt;Publishers Weekly&lt;/i&gt;), &lt;i&gt;Rose of No Man&amp;#8217;s Land &lt;/i&gt;is brim&#173;ming with snarky observations and soulful musings on contemporary teenage America. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michelle Tea]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 15 18:54:22 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 15 19:06:51 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My opinion on this book is pretty much the opposite of the rest of the reviews here. I found it at the library &amp; thought it looked interesting, which it definitely was. It was disturbing. I thought the 1st 10 or so chapters were great, reading about what Trisha's life was like &amp; trying to figure out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15534755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45462026">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bookmarks Magazine]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 09:47:06 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 05 09:47:06 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Following on the heels of her graphic novel <em>Rent Girl</em> (2005), the award-winning <em>Valencia </em>(2001), about San Francisco prostitution, and <em>The Beautiful </em>(2003), a collection of poetry, <em>Rose of No Man's Land </em>is Tea's first novel. Critics describe it as raw, honest, confident, hilarious, unpretentious, cy...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45462026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72531077">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lia]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 26 00:37:06 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 26 01:03:26 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty rare to find a coming-of-age novel that's not drenched in polemic. I thought Tea captured that teenage moment pretty well: a kind of impotent self-awareness, longing for what seems inaccessible and maybe some fear that things won't ever change. (I'm still holding onto that fear when it comes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72531077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52383872">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mikey]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 12 08:56:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 12 09:15:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A ravishing onslaught of words shot through with brilliance and a sensitive, careful crafting of a voice.  The going gets a little patchy on occasion, and suddenly Michelle Tea, the author, supersedes the narrator she has created, and we are captive as she lectures on, for example, the evils of tele...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52383872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34974301">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ciara]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Somerville, MA]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[queer authors who want to understand the lowest common denominator]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 10 07:46:03 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 20 09:23:50 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[oh boy. here we go. michelle tea. is there an author i like less? i don't think so. why do i torture myself by reading her books? i have hated all of them, with the exception of <u>the chelsea whistle</u>, which i merely disliked quite a bit. she's like francesca lia block for queers--substance-less, mind-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34974301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30759288">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ecclectiscapist]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Girls who like girls]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 20 23:57:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 21 00:12:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting coming-of-age story that revolves around the main character, Trisha, meeting a girl named Rose the first day of her first ever job at the mall (which she held for only part of a day). They go on a whirlwind adventure together, and a  great many firsts happen, including Trisha's first rom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30759288">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19356861">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Waukegan, IL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 03 05:47:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 07:17:35 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those novels that is so achingly, uncomfortably realistic that it left me thinking about the main character, Trisha Driscoll, long after I closed the book.  Fourteen year old, Trisha thinks of herself as a loner.  She has no close friends and spends a lot of time in her room, drinking...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19356861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15566608">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kirsten]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Feb 16 10:11:17 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 16 10:11:38 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Trisha's life is not exactly thrilling. Her mother is a hypochrondriac on disability, and her father is a junkie and is rumored to be in Louisiana somewhere. The best thing that can be said for Donnie, her mother's boyfriend, is that he doesn't try to molest Trisha or her older sister, Kristy. Krist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15566608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8356737">
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    <name><![CDATA[K]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Richmond, VA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 28 13:58:35 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 28 17:35:17 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny and profane account of teenage Trish's first few days of summer, starting when she misses the last day of ninth grade because her family doesn't care enough to wake her when her alarm clock shorts out.  With a couch-ridden mother who  diagnoses herself with every disease discussed on TV, an ag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8356737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48826380">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kristan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 10 12:45:46 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 24 13:07:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[by now i realize that michelle tea's books don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. valencia didn't and i totally loved it. but rose of no man's land seemed like it was going to have an ending. it's basically a few epic days in this girl's life that will probably shape her as a person or whatev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48826380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55408616">
    <user id="1620974">
    <name><![CDATA[Ethel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 08 14:55:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 08 15:18:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought after graduating from college I'd do all kinds of reading I didn't have time for when I was doing it for grades. It hasn't really worked out that way. None-the-less, as a distinct era of my reading history, I'm updating this account to reflect my post-college reading. To do this, I'm begin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55408616">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55408616]]></url>
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    <review id="40102830">
    <user id="48281">
    <name><![CDATA[sally]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Dec 14 16:58:01 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 14 16:59:43 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book... I probably would give it only a 2.5 star rating though, it wasn't really compelling. Two women in the bookstore I was at today were raving about Michelle Tea, and the book they showed me looked good, so I'm adding it to my to-read list. Looks like she does really really differen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40102830">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9376985">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jamie]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 20 18:53:12 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 17 15:46:17 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was great on a few levels.<br/>Level One: I am a sucker for people who are generally younger (teenagers, if you will) who don't know what the fuck their life is all about and who have no idea who they are (you know, inside) finding out over time the answers to these questions via a series...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9376985">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8473791">
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    <name><![CDATA[Annie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 31 06:56:58 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 31 07:01:34 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[At the moment, I am only on Chapter 3 of Rose of No Man's Land by Michelle Tea, but it's so far great!  After having read only one other Michelle Tea book, Valencia, about a gender-bending lesbian moving to San Francisco in the early 1990s, I really wanted to check out more.  Rose of No Man's Land i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8473791">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41518451">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Oakland, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 01 13:53:15 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 01 13:59:20 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stayed up until 3 reading this in one sitting the other night, post the locals offsite reading at Hotel Utah. Didn't kill quite as hard as others (I'm a fan!) but totally worth it for the ashmobile alone. Also those last three chapters / the meth trip / makeout session on a miniature golf course, st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41518451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2277507">
    <user id="142816">
    <name><![CDATA[Chantel]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 22 15:46:19 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 22 15:46:23 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a crazy wild spinning ride, the story of three days in the life of Trisha, the young protagonist.  From a family living on the margins, Trisha hasn't done much in her life until she meets Rose.  The two teenage girls run around having adventures that include nude photos, drug use, tatto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2277507">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this book last summer after finishing the author's memoir &quot;Valencia,&quot; which I had found intriguing, repetitive, and pretentious. &quot;Rose&quot; stayed with me much longer. It painted a very realistic picture of the low-rent suburbs (malls, fast food joints, chain restaurants, apartm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17306428">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A compact, entertaining book where almost all of the action takes place over the course of one crazy-assed day. Although it is told from the viewpoint of a lower-class teenage girl in Mogsfield, Massachusetts, the language is tight, the slang and dialect is used effectively (not just for style), and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11195311">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had a slow start.  It wasn't until I was over 150 pages into it that it really started picking up for me (and were I not such a devoted Michelle Tea fan, I most certainly would have set this book aside).<br/><br/>That said, I'm glad I stuck with it.  The last bit of the book was certainl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/831374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i like the characters Ms. Tea created in this novel, but the story really seemed to lose it's drive about a third of the way in.  i almost didn't finish it, but then the intense sex scene got things going again and I made it through.]]></body>
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