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Fresh Girls & Other Stories
Fresh Girls & Other Stories | Evelyn Lau
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Praised for her remarkable debut, Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, Evelyn Lau continues to mesmerize readers with Fresh Girls and Other Stories, her first collection of short fiction. Written with characteristic intensity and honesty, Laus ten stories reveal the lonely underworld of fresh girls trapped in prostitution, sadomasochism and domination, searching for a place where sex, obsession and love can meet. In Pleasure, a woman finds strange relief in being blindfolded and restrained into an enforced helplessness that releases her from all worldly responsibility. The prostitute of Marriage asserts herself by toying with the idea of revealing her johns infidelity. The complexity of her characters is extraordinary and Laus prose deftly explores the world where pleasure becomes pain and pain becomes addictive. Raw, sensitive, and never sentimental, Evelyn Lau shows us a world where turning tricks, donning leather and wielding a whip can become routine -- while love and tenderness seem almost obscene.
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Mehso-so

This was between a so-so and a pan for me. It was pretty well written, but not my cup of tea. A collection of very short stories centering around prostitutes, call girls, mistresses and dominatrixes. Some insight into the minds of these fictional women as to why they do the things they do, and how they feel while they are doing them. But not a lot happened, and it was pretty depressing. Wouldn't recommend but I will donate to a LFL.

Freespirit The cover is very eye catching 4y
Moonprismpower @CaliforniaCay @Freespirit I agree about the cover. The cover can get me to buy a book. 4y
MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm Are those sushi post-it‘s? 4y
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CaliforniaCay @Freespirit and @Moonprismpower I definitely picked this up because of the cover! Luckily I found it in a little free library so no money wasted! 😄 4y
CaliforniaCay @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm close, it's sushi washi tape I found at world market! 4y
Moonprismpower Yay for Little Free Libraries!!! 4y
MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @CaliforniaCay Omg, even better!! ❤️😍❤️ 4y
CaliforniaCay @LapReader since you're the only person who stacked this and you're a fellow #litsylove member, consider this book yours! I'll ship it sometime this week 🤗 Normally I would keep this a surprise but since theres been so many issues with the US post office these days, it's probably gunna take a while to get to you, so I thought I'd give you a heads up. Plus I owe you a letter! 4y
LapReader Thankyou @CaliforniaCay but it‘s too expensive! 4y
CaliforniaCay @LapReader no worries at all! I've shipped internationally before. Plus I usually choose a handful of random littens a year to send packages to, and I've only sent out 2 so far. So you and a few more people will be getting some random surprises in their mail 🥰 4y
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The bottom 3 are my current reads, the 2 on top are the books I ordered for #blackoutbestsellerslist on Juneteenth. I haven't been reading as much lately because I'm in the middle of a move, but hopefully I can finish all of these by next month.