Evelyn Lau
Fresh girls & other stories (1993) - Evelyn Lau
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Biography
Evelyn Lau (born July 2, 1971) is a Canadian poet and novelist. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Chinese-Canadian parents. Her parents had high expectations of her, hoping she would become a doctor. Her family life was unhappy, however, as was her school life.
In 1984, at age 14, she left home and began living on the streets of Vancouver, eventually turning to prostitution and drugs. Always wanting to be a writer she kept a diary which was published as Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid in 1989. The graphic book was a critical and commercial success.
The 1993 film The Diary of Evelyn Lau (1993) was based on this memoir of life on the streets; it starred Korean-Canadian actress Sandra Oh. Lau's subsequent volumes of poetry and her first novel confirmed her as one of Canada's great young literary talents.
She also had a well publicized romance with the older writer W. P. Kinsella, a relationship that ended up with him suing her for libel.
She currently lives in Vancouver. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Lau [Sept 2006]
Fresh girls & other stories (1993) - Evelyn Lau
Six years after the publication of Runaway, Lau's memoir of her years as a suicidal teenage prostitute and drug addict, comes this now 23-year-old author's fiction debut: 10 grim and powerful short stories about women whose loveless lives are controlled by sex, from prostitution to sadomasochism. In the title story, the 19-year-old narrator, a prostitute, knowingly explains why clients prefer the oldest profession's newest girls and worries about her upcoming 20th birthday and being washed up in the business within a couple of years. In "The Session," narrated in the third person, Mary fantasizes about the romantic evening with her boyfriend that she hopes will follow her dominatrix session with a client intent on being abused. In "Fetish Night," Sabrina watches a man be brutally whipped by his lover in an underground club, and then becomes more than a voyeur when she climbs atop an anonymous male "slave" and digs her boots into his side. The author of three poetry collections (In the House of the Slaves), Lau employs sensuously described images and melodic prose to soften the brutal, very realistic encounters she describes in these poignant stories, which speak eloquently of loneliness, rage, despair and other raw emotions. --Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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