Tea’s books, which are amazing sort of punk queer coming of age narratives, are all deeply informed by her own history but slide between non-fiction and fiction in representing specific characters and situations.īefore this class I reflexively scoffed at the idea of fictional memoir (despite not having known the exact term, despite the fact that if I think about it I’ve read and enjoyed quite a few of them). It was taught by Michelle Tea, herself the author of several hybrid books that she referred to as “fictional memoirs,” a term I don’t think I’d heard before.

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Zipper Mouth by Laurie Weeks