Details

ISBN-10: 1558613560
ISBN-13: 9781558613560
Publisher: Feminist Press
Publish Date: 10/14/2025
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.40" W, 0.80" H

Little F

Paperback

Price: $17.95

Overview

One of LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of The Year

A new epic novel about a teenage queer runaway from cult classic author of Black Wave and Valencia Michelle Tea.

In Spencer’s fantasies, the breezy, queer streets of Provincetown, MA, are utopia, a place where he can be free. Yet when a violent attack in his suburban Arizona schoolyard sends him to the hospital, he decides queer utopia can’t wait. And one night, with the help of his best friend, the teenage witch Joy, he hitches a ride to find it.

The cross-country road odyssey that follows brings Spencer from new moon rituals in Arizona canyons to Texas bus stations, from the luxe drag stages of Houston’s Montrose district to the jazz-soaked streets of the French Quarter and beyond. This new novel from Michelle Tea tells the story, by turns raw, romantic, and sweet, of a sheltered boy taking his first leap into queer life, among all the complicated queers who live it.

  • author photo of michelle tea

    Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books, including the cult-classic Valencia, the illustrated Rent Girl, and the speculative memoir Black Wave. She is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim, Lambda Literary, and Rona Jaffe Foundations, PEN/America, and other institutions. Knocking Myself Up is her latest memoir. Tea's cultural interventions include brainstorming the international phenomenon Drag Queen Story Hour, co-creating the Sister Spit queer literary performance tours, and occupying the role of Founding Director at RADAR Productions, a Bay Area literary organization, for over a decade. She also helmed the imprints Sister Spit Books at City Lights Publishers, and Amethyst Editions at The Feminist Press. She produces and hosts the Your Magic podcast, wherein which she reads tarot cards for Roxane Gay, Alexander Chee, Phoebe Bridgers and other artists, as well as the live tarot show Ask the Tarot on Spotify Greenroom.

Read More
Reviews

Praise for Little F:


"By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and hope-filled. . . . This coming-of-age story soars." Publishers Weekly (starred review)


"A comical, tender, queer coming-of-age, where the journey is the destination." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)


"Dazzling, daring, and darkly hilarious, Little F is a novel that breathes new life into the gay coming-of-age story from a writer whose work has helped define the tradition of queer writing. Gritty with a hopeful twist, this gorgeous book is sure to join the canon of classic young adult coming-out fiction." –Kai Cheng Thom, author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

"Little F is the book I've been needing all my life. It's like Michelle Tea has a magnifying glass pointed straight into every angsty teenage queer's soul. I can't wait for everyone to meet Spencer, her heartbreakingly tender and deliciously messy hero, whose cross-country odyssey is equal parts To Wong Foo and My So-Called Life. I saw the best parts of myself in this book. The anger. The hunger. The private, indestructible yearning. I laughed so hard I cried." –Edgar Gomez, author of High-Risk Homosexual


Other praise for Michelle Tea's work

"Michelle Tea's is a singular voice – brilliant but also irreverent, optimistic but also abrasive, as curious as it is critical. . . . Reading Tea can feel like conversing with your smartest friend, and it's one of those hangouts you never want to end." –Buzzfeed

"Tea's conversational tone and her way of writing deeply personal experience . . . presents a very necessary counter-narrative to mainstream histories of American punk, feminism, and sexual identity." –The Brooklyn Rail

"Tea's writing continues to make the world worth living in." –Lambda Literary Review

More Reviews

Details

ISBN-10: 1558613560
ISBN-13: 9781558613560
Publisher: Feminist Press
Publish Date: 10/14/2025
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.40" W, 0.80" H
Skip to content