Fresh Girls, and Other Stories (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Evelyn Lau
- First Published: 1993
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Teenagers, Prostitution or prostitutes, Drug addiction or addicts, Youth, Masks
The Work
Fresh Girls, and Other Stories, Evelyn Lau’s collection of short stories, centers around young women who seek love and human affection in a netherworld of prostitution and bizarre, alternative sexual lifestyles. Many of the stories’ protagonists live on two or more levels. They often wear a mask during the sex work they perform, but have retained a different identity in which they long for a more conventional life and for loving acceptance.
Lau’s stories are told from the perspective of the young women, who chase after a dream which continues to...
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