An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work
Shane’s memoir begins with recollections of her adolescence, when she was an avid student of desire, and it ends with a moving account of her marriage to a man she loves. In less than 200 pages, the book manages to be part autobiography, part anthropological investigation and part feminist tract ... A strange and poignant love story.
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Slim but mighty ... Shane’s memoir reads more like a series of opinion pieces than a chronology of events ... As insightful as it may seem, An Honest Woman does have its blind spots — and uncharacteristically judgmental sore points ... May defy expectations of the genre. Yes, it’s a racy, salacious tell-all at times, but it’s also a refreshingly candid and provocative think piece — one that questions the blurry boundaries of attachment when it comes to pleasure, the complicated nature of intimacy, and the murkiness of feelings surrounding who and how we love.
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Shane is an erudite writer, funny and disarming, and her memoir holds space for all of the dualities of love and sex work.
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