Bibliograph

Body shell girl, a memoir, Rose Hunter

Type

Label

Body shell girl, a memoir, Rose Hunter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Body shell girl

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Rose Hunter

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

When Rose walked into a massage parlour in Toronto in 1997, she was looking for a temporary fix to pay rent and avoid having to go back to her home country of Australia. Awkward, shy and looking for a place to belong, she found herself in a strange world she understood little about, other than here she could make more than rent. She planned to use her earnings to buy herself an education that would secure the career of her dreams. Naively believing she could do only what was required of her, without trauma or side effects and leave the industry on her own terms, she was shattered by what unfolded. Rose's narration does not tell the reader what to think, but rather the reader is called on to consider the implications of what she shows in her poems. The result is a first-person testimony of the sex industry and the harms it produces

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