{"title":"Charlotte Shane","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Shane’s works offer an intimate exploration of personal journeys, delving into themes of resilience, identity, and transformation. Her writing carries a raw and candid voice that illuminates the complexities of human experience with honesty and depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect memoirs that are both poignant and thought-provoking, where personal stories unfold with emotional clarity. Shane’s narratives invite reflection on the challenges and strength found in navigating life’s most difficult moments.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"an-honest-woman-by-charlotte-shane-9781982126865","title":"An Honest Woman","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThrough the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a “rigorous and compulsively readable memoir” (\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine) exploring what it means to be a heterosexual woman and a feminist in a misogynistic society.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A memoir of sex work that is also a poignant love story” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her early twenties, Charlotte Shane quit her women’s studies graduate programme to devote herself to sex work because it was a way to devote herself to men. Her lifelong curiosity about male lust, love, selfishness, and social capital dovetailed with her own insatiable desire for intimacy to sustain a long career in escorting, with unexpectedly poignant results.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShane uses her “unsparing honesty” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) and her personal and professional history to examine how men and women struggle in their attempts at romantic and sexual bonding, no matter how true their intentions. As she takes stock of her relationships—with clients, with her father, with friends, with married men, and later, with her own husband—she tells a candid and haunting tale of love, marriage, and (in)fidelity, as seen through the eyes of the perpetual “other woman.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBraiding the personal and the universal, \u003ci\u003eAn Honest Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a merciless and moving love letter to men and an indictment of habitual dishonesty, a condemnation of every social constraint acting on heterosexual unions, and a hopeful affirmation of the possibility for true connection between men and women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46626833367276,"sku":"9781982126865","price":54.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/19878183482893.jpg?v=1751870764"},{"product_id":"prostitute-laundry-by-charlotte-shane-9781800815834","title":"Prostitute Laundry","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eStylist\u003c\/em\u003e 'Non-fiction You Can't Miss' selection for 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis serial memoir follows Charlotte over the course of several years as she falls in and out of love, muses on the nature of sex work and the value of beauty, discovers hidden emotional complexities and contemplates leaving her profession. 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