"This is the polyamory book I've always wanted - nitty-gritty gooey honesty cut with a zoomed-out historical, political, spiritual context. Tea reminds us that a radical, expanded life might also be the most stable and sustaining life." - Miranda July, New York Times bestselling author of All Fours "Michelle Tea is our luminary of optimistic rebellion--sassy, astute, quicksilver, a master of the hot mess, with a legendary stature reaffirmed by wave upon wave of new readers." - Jeremy Atherton Lin, National Book Critics Circle Award winning author of Gay Bar and Deep House "Michelle Tea writes with great energy and insight. Free Love is smart, colorful and very funny." - Cat Marnell, New York Times bestselling author of How to Murder Your Life "As a sex-positive, liberated modern woman who fancies herself a subversive 1950s monogamous housewife in heels (yet believes my wild era will start in my 60s), I'm thrilled to read Michelle's visceral memoir of free love. It's inspirational, evocative and asks us to consider our boundaries and societal conditioning around sex, love and commitment." - Liz Goldwyn, author, filmmaker, artist and founder of The Sex Ed "Moving across decades, generations, even centuries, Michelle Tea's Free Love approaches polyamory with the energy, wit and luminosity she brings to all her books.
Without discounting any of the awkwardness and problems open relationships may bring, Tea embraces various experiments in liberated living as aspirational paths to creating better worlds." - Chris Kraus, author of The Four Spent the Day Together "As with every insightful, illustrious, passion-excavating journey the inimitable Michelle Tea takes us through, Free Love is yet another potent gem. A compilation of the many and multiplicitous, Tea tenderly explores the tendrils of desire, erotic play and the all-consuming nature of our contemplative, relational and sensual selves. Juicy, sexy and quintessentially hilarious, this is book one for the ages. Tea is undeniably one of the best contemporary writers of our time. Buy this book and enjoy the hell out of it." - Fariha Róisín, author of several books including Who Is Wellness For? and How To Cure A Ghost. " Free Love is many books at once - a survey of the liberationist history of polyamory, a memoir of Tea's own experiments in the field, and a guide to some of the most intrepid, lively figures currently out there exploring the field.
As always with Tea, however, the book vaults above these laudatory achievements, and - by dint of Tea's unrivaled vulnerability, wit, and curiosity - invites us to revisit our own lives, reorder our own programming, and consider how we, too, might live in pursuit of better love and a better world." - Maggie Nelson, award-winning author of The Argonauts and On Freedom "I loved this reckless, joyful, disobedient book. Tea's resolute quest for midlife freedom and pleasure is both sparky and inspiring." - Olivia Laing, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Garden Against Time "[Tea] imparts great doses of humor and inspired insights on the carefree yet complex seductiveness of erotic autonomy, aging, being a parent, adventures at crowded poly parties, and managing jealousy with a 'metamour.' She seamlessly ties these themes together with the kind of self-deprecation that will make readers relate to the discussion, whether they condone polyamory or not.Tea's perspectives give readers permission to own their desires, communicate them openly to partners irrespective of societal approval, and to 'go after the things that thrill you.' Provocative, assumption-challenging deliberations on sexual liberation and modern couplehood." - Kirkus Reviews.