A collection of stories by the author of the critically acclaimed Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid draws on her shocking, seductive memories of the dark underside of life to probe the lives of women on the edge of society, sexuality, and sanity.

Fresh Girls & Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Lau, Evelyn

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited

Praised for her remarkable debut, Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid, Evelyn Lau continues to mesmerize readers with Fresh Girls and Other Stories, her first collection of short fiction. Written with characteristic intensity and honesty, Lau’ s ten stories reveal the lonely underworld of “ fresh girls” trapped in prostitution, sadomasochism and domination, searching for a place where sex, obsession and love can meet. In “ Pleasure,” a woman finds “ strange relief” in being blindfolded and restrained into an enforced helplessness that releases her from all worldly responsibility. The prostitute of “ Marriage” asserts herself by toying with the idea of revealing her john’ s infidelity. The complexity of her characters is extraordinary and Lau’ s prose deftly explores the world where pleasure becomes pain and pain becomes addictive. Raw, sensitive, and never sentimental, Evelyn Lau shows us a world where turning tricks, donning leather and wielding a whip can become routine -- while love and tenderness seem almost obscene.

Fresh Girls and Other Stories

Harperperennial

Even as a six-year-old child, Evelyn Lau already knew what she would be in life―a writer. She would spend countless hours in her room writing short stories and poems trying to avoid the suffocating reality surrounding her. At the age of fourteen, forbidden by her strict parents to “waste” any more of her time writing, Evelyn did the only thing she felt she could do―she ran away. For two years, Lau lived on the streets of Vancouver. For a while she embraced her new life, seduced by the sense of freedom and independence from the pressures of school and family. But like so many others before her, Lau soon fell into a dangerous spiral of drug addiction and prostitution. During her two harrowing years on the street, Lau’s writing ambition never left her; almost obsessively, she kept a written record of her days on the street; this record is Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid. A bestselling memoir, Runaway is a story of survival: physical, emotional and psychological. It is at times tragic, sometimes infuriating, but always honest and inspired; Runaway makes no apologies and offers no solutions. It is a vivid and frightening portrait of a young girl’s life on the street.

Runaway: Diary Of A Street Kid

Biographies & Memoirs

Regional U.S.

Harper-perennial

Fresh girls and other stories

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Inside Out: Reflections on a life so far

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Doubleday Canada, Toronto

Community & Culture

Anchor Canada

Other Women

Random House Canada

Fiona, an accomplished young artist, falls in love with Raymond. An older married man. Their haunted relationship evolves in a floating melange of restaurants and hotel rooms against the looming backdrop of their separate, anonymous cities. Although erotically charged, the affair is never consummated - yet the love Fiona feels intensifies into an obsession that continues to possess her long after Raymond leaves her. Along the way, at receptions and restaurant tables, at dinner parties and on trips, Fiona meets other men and women in relationships that are coming together or falling apart-friendships, marriages, love affairs - each offering their own version of love's nature. And, throughout, Raymond's wife Helen holds a central place. For Fiona, Helen herself is "the other woman" - mysterious, enviable and untouchable.

World Literature

Vintage Canada

As the love afair progresses between Fiona, a young woman torn by lack of love and susceptible to obsession and her lover's cruelty, and Raymond, an older married man, Fiona finds herself idealizing Raymond's wife

Other Women: A Novel

United States

Simon&Schuster

Fresh Girls

Harper Collins Canada Limited

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