Rent Girl, Michelle Tea's illustrated memoir about being a young hooker in Boston, is totally engaging.The writing has a light, conversational style that sucks you in. Vignettes are presented in an offhand fashion. Yet the voice deepens and grows on you and I began to feel invested in the narrator. The tales of hooking are gritty and sad, filled with mundane and sometimes humorous details.
Laurenn McCubbin's illustrations add a tremendous amount to the story, really breathing life into aspects of it.
Rent Girl chronicles Tea's relationships and struggles to find a way to get by financially without compromising self or aesthetics, and in this way it's sort of a coming of age story.
I really enjoyed it!
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