TEA
Stacey D'Erasmo
£6.99
'A pure and profound book; a ravishing book ... a work of art'
Michael Cunningham
'Coming-of-age stories usually move in a straight line, if only because it's easier to tell them that way. Stacey D'Erasmo's debut novel Tea is far more faithful to the way selfhood evolves in circular and often absurdly comical stages. D'Erasmo unspools the life of Isabel Gold in three distinct phases: a child of eight who loses her troubled mother to suicide; a teen discovering she likes girls as much as pot and Joni Mitchell; and a 22-year-old scrambling to keep her bohemian dreams and her relationship with a cranky Greek girlfriend alive in Lower Manhattan. With wry humour and acute lyricism that recall Lorrie Moore, D'Erasmo reveals how life's true progress is marked in equal measure by embarrassment, laughter and tears.'
Harper's Bazaar
Stacey D'Erasmo
was a Senior Editor for the Voice Literary Supplement and has written for The Nation, The New York Times Book Review and Rolling Stone. She held a Stegner Fellowship in Fiction from 1995-1997. She lives in New York