Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's mission district. Through a string of narrative moments, tea records a year lived in a wor...Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's mission district. Through a string of narrative moments, tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away from the south in a dust cloud of drama; And Iris's ex, magdalena squalor, to whom Michelle turns when Iris breaks her heart.