Description
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Michelle Tea,Lauren McCubbin (Illustrator)
Published: 08/01/2004
Publisher: Last Gasp
ISBN: 9780867196207
Pages: 239
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 0.59″ H x 7.96″ L x 8.00″ W
Award: 2004 Lambda Literary Awards Nominee – Memoir/Autobiography
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.
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