Dance to Despair: Memoirs of an Exotic Dancer

by Cheri Hess

Based on the memoirs, of a beautiful woman’s 23 year journey through the doors of Chicagoland’s most infamous strip clubs that operated from the mid 1970’s through the 1990’s. A native of Illinois, seventeen year old, Rebeckka Black segued into a life of rootless wandering. Besieged by emotional problems, the distraught, young woman is propelled into a relationship with a dangerous ex-convict. Restless and impulsive, she decides to accompany her companion to San Francisco. Realizing that she had made a serious mistake, Rebeckka hooks up with an unsavory couple who offer to drive her back to Chicago. Shortly after returning to her hometown of Glencoe, Illinois, she searches for another port in the storm. Rebeckka makes a snap decision to join the Armed Forces, but that too was short lived. Two years later she was discharged from the military only to resume her nomadic lifestyle. Determined to change her situation, Rebeckka inadvertently makes a life altering decision that seals her fate…….

132 pages, Paperback

First published June 9, 2005

Reviews

[Glenda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an interesting book but I didn't really get as much of a glimpse into exactly why and how the author started and stayed in this profession so long. I mean I know she said she had depression, etc.. but I just felt like there was more to the story than what she was telling us. All in all an entertaining read. I did find the numbers to be greatly exagerrated as to what the dancers would charge men, I mean who in their right mind would pay $2500 and up to not even get sex?? Bizarre!