Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties

Lemus, Felicia Luna

ISBN 10: 0374278563 / ISBN 13: 9780374278564

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2004

About this Item

8vo, 249 pp., Inscribed & signed by the author on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 092055

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374278563
• ISBN 13: 9780374278564
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Leticia Marisol Estrella Torrez, a university honors graduate, moves north to Los Angeles in an attempt to break from the traditional grandmother who raised her and from Weeping Woman, the Mexican folkloric siren who is said to fly through the skies at night to steal troublesome children and who has courted Leticia since her adolescence.

In Los Angeles, Leticia is quickly immersed in the post-punk, post-Queer hipster scene, and after a short-lived affair with the devastating Edith, Leticia meets K, a tall, dark and handsome Old Spice-wearing lovely from Philadelphia. K and Leticia tumble into "candy heaven" bliss, with, to Leticia's amazement, her nana's blessing. As her confidence in herself and her own sexuality grows, Leticia moves toward an identity that K refers to as "shy bookworm sweater femme boy"-- only to have her newfound happiness brutally shattered by Nana's sudden illness and by the disturbing discovery that K is not as trustworthy as she seems.

Vividly wrought, heart-breaking and compelling, Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties is a wonderful debut from Felicia Luna Lemus.

About the Author

Felicia Luna Lemus graduated summa sum laude from the University of California, Irvine, and received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties is her first novel. She lives in Los Angeles.