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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Client Distribution Services
Published: Sep 2007
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $14.95
Pages: 288
The Kind of Girl I Am chronicles the bawdy adventures of Vestal Jenkins. Born in a dreary Kentucky coal camp during the Great Depression, Vestal 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 shopgirl 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.