Sherry F. (sherryfair) reviewed on 1/4/2006 + 55 more book reviews

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During one of her jobs as an exotic dancer, the author uses the stage name "Tawdry" ... but that is the only thing that is tawdry about this book. It's intelligent, well-written, insightful & funny, "the thinking girl's" look at the world of strip joints & exotic dancing. The journalist Lily Burana spent years working at these places during her youth, but became a writer instead & got out of that life. When she falls in love & receives a proposal of marriage, she realizes she never made peace with her former profession. So she returns, temporarily, to being an exotic dancer & does a circuit of the clubs, observing the trends & changing customs, interrogating her own emotions about what she's doing & interviewing other strippers & recording what she sees. I recommend this if you are curious about the subject.

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