{"product_id":"the-chelsea-whistle-paperback","title":"The Chelsea Whistle - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this gritty, confessional memoir, Michelle Tea takes the reader back to the city of her childhood: Chelsea, Massachusetts--a place where time and hope are spent on things not getting any worse. Tea's girlhood is shaped by the rough fabric of the neighborhood and by its characters--the soft vulnerability of her sister Madeline and her quietly brutal Polish father; the doddering, sometimes violent nuns of Our Lady of Assumption; Marisol Lewis from the projects by the creek; and Johnna Latrotta, the tough-as-nails Italian dance-school teacher who offered a slim chance for escape to every young Chelsea girl in tulle and tap shoes. Told in Tea's trademark loose-tongued, lyrical style, this memoir both celebrates and annihilates one girl's tightrope walk out of a working-class slum and the lessons she carries with her. With wry humor and a hard-fought wisdom, Tea limns the extravagant peril of a dramatic adolescence with the private, catastrophic secret harbored within the walls of her family's home--a secret that threatens to destroy her family forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67945700098271,"sku":"9781580052399","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6Po-mxPQha9781580052399.webp?v=1791503499","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-chelsea-whistle-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}