Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
Diablo Cody, . . Gotham, $24 (212pp) ISBN 978-1-59240-182-6
Why, you might ask, would a healthy, college-educated young woman start stripping for a living, when she could work in a nice, clean office? Cody, now an arts editor for Minneapolis's alternative weekly, had spent her whole life (all 24 years) "choking on normalcy, decency and Jif sandwiches with the crusts amputated." When she moved from Chicago to Minnesota to live with the new boyfriend she'd found on the "World Wide Waste of Time," she took a job at an ad agency—a setup with good "
Reviewed on: 10/03/2005
Genre: Nonfiction