6,521 pages to go … “Strip City”

“Strip City: A Stripper’s Farewell Journey Across America” by Lily Burana (328 pages) is one woman’s compelling quest to find closure before getting married.

Burana, a former stripper, has decided to mount a huge trip stripping her way across the U.S. I really didn’t know that much about the stripping industry before reading the book, so it was really interesting to get an inside look at the business.

The book dealt, not only with her experiences stripping, but her life outside stripping and some of the history behind the profession. Sometimes, I thought the book got bogged down a little by all the history, but it was still interesting nonetheless. I did find myself just wanting her to get back to descriptions of her trip though.

It really didn’t seem too biased, and it was an interesting to see her sort through her feelings about stripping within the confines of the book.

Definitely a recommended read, you’ll find yourself not wanting to put it down.

Thanks, Lisa, for recommending it to me!

Blurb:

” The ultimate road trip; a daring and disarmingly honest odyssey across America with an ex-stripper who dusts off her dancing shoes for a farewell tour. Burana writes with immediacy and candor; hard-won wisdom and hard-bitten humor; a novelist’s voice and a journalist’s eye.”