{"product_id":"an-honest-woman-a-memoir-of-love-and-sex-work-9781982126865","title":"An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work","description":"\u003cb\u003eThrough the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a \"rigorous and compulsively readable memoir\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A memoir of sex work that is also a poignant love story\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women's studies graduate program to devote herself to sex work because it was a way to devote herself to men. Her lifelong curiosity about male lust, love, selfishness, and social capital dovetailed with her own insatiable desire for intimacy to sustain a long career in escorting, with unexpectedly poignant results. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShane uses her \"unsparing honestly\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) and her personal and professional history to examine how men and women struggle in their attempts at a romantic and sexual bonding, no matter how true their intentions. As she takes stock of her relationships--with clients, with her father, with friends, with married men, and later, with her own husband--she tells a candid and haunting tale of love, marriage, and (in)fidelity, as seen through the eyes of the perpetual \"other woman.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBraiding the personal and the universal, \u003ci\u003eAn Honest Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a merciless and moving love letter to men and an indictment of habitual dishonesty, a condemnation of every social constraint acting on heterosexual unions, and a hopeful affirmation of the possibility for true connection between men and women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte Shane is a nonfiction author and essayist. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eProstitute Laundry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eN.B.\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by TigerBee Press, which she cofounded in 2015. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper'\u003c\/i\u003es, \u003ci\u003eSports Illustrated\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874712883474,"sku":"9781982126865","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_66719c15-daba-463f-b4f1-859cfd0ac3cc.jpg?v=1738005117","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-honest-woman-a-memoir-of-love-and-sex-work-9781982126865","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}