An anarchic and unflinching cult novel charged with reflection, anger, and the feeling of being alive (Village Voice), tracing a year of love and lust in San Franciscos lesbian underground, with a new foreword by Maggie Nelson

Valenciais a fast-paced account of one girls search for love and high times in the dyke world of 1990s San Francisco.

Fleeing Tucson and her rotten (ex) girlfriend, Michelle lands in the Mission District, where queers from all over the country are arriving in search of themselves and each other. An aspiring poet, she hurls herself into the citys riotous underbelly, stumbling through nightlife and open mics, drug adventures, and a string of hookups, breakups, and makeups. As butches and besties spin in and out of Michelles orbit, she ponders the powerful force and casual cruelty of their desires, and of her ownall in a singular, biting, deadpan voice shot through with humor and heartbreak.

Heady, beer sticky, and brimming with life,Valenciais a sharply observed and piercingly funny chronicle of a year lived close to the bone. Now with a new foreword from Maggie Nelson, this lesbian cult classic is ripe for rediscovery.

Paperback | 288 pages | 5.50″ x 8.25″