Rent Girl

Michelle Tea

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Nominee:Lambda Literary Award -Memoir/Autobiography (2004)

Rent Girl is the illustrated saga of one broke baby dyke trying to make a buck in the surreal world of the sex industry. Avoiding the stereotypes of prostitute as victim or superhero, Tea instead explores the complicated occupation in all its nuances - absurd, somber, hilarious, disturbing. When Michelle, a young Boston baby dyke, needs money, her adventuresome girlfriend suggests taking up a secretive career in the world of escort services. Her misadventures through her years in the sex trade are at times, humorous, tantalizing, and heartbreaking. Constantly struggling between the worlds of poverty and prostitution, Michelle must make the eventual decision to stay in the business with its financial freedoms or quit for spiritual serenity.

Book Details

Publisher: Last Gasp
Publish Date: Aug 1st, 2004
Pages: 239
Language: English
Edition: Perennial and 1 - undefined
Dimensions: 7.96in - 8.00in - 0.59in - 1.45lb
EAN: 9780867196207
Categories: • Literary

About the Author

Tea, Michelle: - MICHELLE TEA is the author of ten books, the founder of literary non-profit RADAR Productions, the co-creator of Sister Spit, and the curator of Amethyst Editions, a collaboration with the Feminist Press.

Praise for this book

""A modern-day Beat, a kind of pop ambassador to the world of the tattooed, pierced, politicized and sex-radical queer-girls of San Francisco. [She] dramatizes the hopes and hurts, apathies and ambitions of young lesbians looking for love in the Mission District."