When ex-stripper Lily Burana accepts a marriage proposal, she decides to go for a farewell tour before settling down.
An eighteen-year-old dropout when she first entered the world of exotic dancing, Lily, now a successful journalist, looks at stripping with a writer's perspective, open to the paradoxes and challenges that face exotic dancers. She takes the stage name of Barbie Faust and strips her way across the country from Florida to Alaska. Her funny but hard-edged memoir describes funky clubs and off-beat characters, the exhilaration that overtakes a dancer on stage - and the darker realities that assail her when she's out of the spotlight.
Compelling and unswervingly candid, 'Strip City' is both a hugely entertaining insider's account of a hidden world and a moving self-discovery.
