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The Kind of Girl I Am

Born in a dreary Kentucky coal camp during the Great Depression, Vestal Jenkins uses her one natural resource — her extraordinary beauty — as her ticket out of poverty.

Vestal's bawdy adventures include a brief period of religious piety, a loveless but lucrative marriage, an unsatisfactory stint as a shop girl and a financially rewarding foray into the world's oldest profession. This last venture leads Vestal to find her true profession — as the madam of the most notorious brothel in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Spanning decades, The Kind of Girl I Am humorously explores the changing sexual and social mores of the South and depicts an extraordinary woman's experiences of triumph, heartbreak, friendship and forbidden love.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 264
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781883523893
  • Genres
  • fiction, queer
  • Release date
  • 2007