All Hookers Go To Heaven
- Publisher
- Invisible Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2024
- Category
- General, Friendship, Coming of Age, Small Town & Rural
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781778430527
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $23.95
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Description
“I've been waiting years for a novel like this! A funny, moving, superbly written coming-of-hooker-age story that holds nothing back. Mag is one of the best protagonists you'll never forget, and this book is filled with angels."—Casey Plett, author of A Dream of a Woman and Little Fish
All Hookers Go To Heaven follows Mag: an East Coast girl raised in a conservative Christian home where she is urged to preserve her purity at all costs. Obsessed with earning a place in heaven, Mag rejects the hyper-sexual youth culture of her small town—that is, until she falls for a sophisticated, fun girl named Marlous while attending a program designed to usher young people into Evangelical Missionary work.
Spiraling into shame and regret, Mag breaks away from the Church and launches herself into the world of sex for hire, attempting to shed her repressive past and become an anti-virgin--the exact opposite of what her religion raised her to be. As she hustles across continents, Mag finds her obsession has shifted. Instead of heaven, now she is focused on chasing the elusive, ever-shifting concept of financial security. In the process, she finds it harder and harder to differentiate the money she earns from her self-worth—and her own identity from that of her sex worker alter ego.
About the author
Angel B.H. grew up in Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. Her second birth was in a punk-lesbian bar in Montreal, where she studied. She currently resides in Europe. She enjoys writing about sex work, Evangelical Christianity, and hopelessly complex female friendships. All Hookers Go To Heaven is her first novel.
Editorial Reviews
“I’ve been waiting years for a novel like this! A funny, moving, superbly written coming-of-hooker-age story that holds nothing back. Mag is one of the best protagonists you’ll never forget, and this book is filled with angels.”—Casey Plett, author of A Dream of a Woman and Little Fish
“Over the past decade, sex worker-authored memoir has gotten a stiletto-heeled foot in the door of literary nonfiction. Portrayals of sex workers in fiction, however, remain caught somewhere in between X-rated versions of the manic pixie dream girl and convenient victim tropes. Angel B.H.’s All Hookers Go To Heaven transcends these tropes through her nimble and refreshing storytelling. Mag’s story is as harrowing as it is true-to-life. And she’s as multidimensional as every sex worker character should rightfully be.”—Amber Dawn, author of Sodom Road Exit and Sub Rosa