β Scribed by Lau, Evelyn
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Praised for her remarkable debut, Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, Evelyn Lau continues to mesmerize readers with Fresh Girls and Other Stories, her first collection of short fiction. Written with characteristic intensity and honesty, LauΠ²Πβ’ s ten stories reveal the lonely underworld of Π²ΠΡ fresh girlsΠ²ΠΡ trapped in prostitution, sadomasochism and domination, searching for a place where sex, obsession and love can meet. In Π²ΠΡ Pleasure,Π²ΠΡ a woman finds Π²ΠΡ strange reliefΠ²ΠΡ in being blindfolded and restrained into an enforced helplessness that releases her from all worldly responsibility. The prostitute of Π²ΠΡ MarriageΠ²ΠΡ asserts herself by toying with the idea of revealing her johnΠ²Πβ’ s infidelity. The complexity of her characters is extraordinary and LauΠ²Πβ’ s prose deftly explores the world where pleasure becomes pain and pain becomes addictive.
Raw, sensitive, and never sentimental, Evelyn Lau shows us a world where turning tricks, donning leather and wielding a whip can become routine -- while love and tenderness seem almost obscene.
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