num_pages: 528
description: From the author of Thin Girls a page-turning feminist novel that tells the story of how a poor girl coming of age in rural New Zealand grows to be a sex icon the face of a movement and a mother all at the same time.Kate Burns grows up wanting attention from her Ma but her Ma wants only money and Kate learns how to get both. She and her childhood friend Lacey run kissing lessons for cash in the janitors closet of Fenbrook High and just like that they find themselves in the sex work industry. When Ma dies Kate discovers that the men her Ma was always inviting over to their home were in fact clients. Ma was no stranger to sex work either. Following in Mas footsteps Kate heads to Nevada where she picks up a job at Americas largest and most successful brothel: The Hop. In her new life as a Bunny Kate searches for an identity she can performthe other Bunnies include a goth a housewife a hippy a rebel all of them acting their archetype flawlessly. She befriends Betty a trans woman who is a Bunny for kicks rather than cash; Mia who is marketed as The Asian Persuasion; Dakota and Rain who are ex-dominatrixes and newly in love. Kate becomes Lady Lane. Lady quickly becomes a bestselling Bunny and the owner Daddys favorite at this high-class establishment. But when ten street workers are killed in a nearby city just bodies with no names Lady joins her sister Bunnies in mourning and begins to see things in a new light.Ladys success breeds scandal and unwanted fame deeply affecting her transforming her life and The Hop forever. Diana Clarkes provocative second novel is subversive in the very best way an unforgettable work of fiction with a feminist message that couldnt be more important.
language: English
title: The Hop
publisher: Harper