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.
- Author
- Julia Watts
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Spinsters Ink
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781883523893
- Genres
- fiction, queer
- Release date
- 2007
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