Qtprep1’s Reviews > Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute > Status Update

Sth about the way the prose is, humbling, real emotions (anger, sassiness, innocence), it keeps you reading. The character feels real. The story wasn’t trying to lecture. It just tells it as it is. All foils and faults. Lots of ups and downs. Hopes and hopelessnesses.

The life story of Alice tells of why it’s important to pay women a living wage, of why forgiving and understanding family bonds are important to keep women out of Stockholm’s syndrome pimps, why it’s important to help women and social justive for them.

Interesting look into the simple subsistence economy of small towns back in the days before the commercial economy. Reminds me of the simple life for the childhood of the Educated book author Tara Westover. Also reminds me of the Breakfast at Tiffany of how the main character had a old doc husband in her rural village: poor healthcare and surplus of women to eligible bachelors.