Rose of no man's land

About this book

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 The Real World, Trisha struggles to find her own place among the neon signs, theme restaurants, and cookie-cutter chain stores of her hometown.

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 “postmillennial, class-adjusted My So-Called Life” (Publishers Weekly), Rose of No Man’s Land is brimming with snarky observations and soulful musings on contemporary teenage America.

Subjects

• american literature
• dropouts
• fiction
• fiction, lesbian
• fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian
• fiction, romance, general
• friendship
• lesbians, fiction
• lesbian teenagers
• lesbian youth
• lgbtq novels
• poor teenagers
• poor youth
• short stories
• stonewall book awards
• teenage girls
• young adult fiction