PENO.Henry Prize Stories 2009 by Laura Furman

Author:Laura Furman [Furman, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-47307-3
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2009-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

The brothel had no name. I had once come across a newspaper ad in our kitchen that read “Angels of Your Dream—Asian Girls from Various Countries with Gorgeous Figures and Tender Hearts.” It gave no contact information other than a phone number, which was the one shared by the women. I almost laughed out loud at the ad, because the three of them were all Chinese. Of course, Huong could pass for Vietnamese, speaking the language as her native tongue, and Nana could pretend to be Malaysian or Singaporean, since she came from Hong Kong and spoke accented Mandarin. But Lili, a tall college student from Shanghai, looked Chinese through and through, even though she spoke English well. She was the one who handled the phone calls.

Unlike most underground brothels, this one didn’t change its women regularly. I guessed Lili would return to school when the summer was over, and then Mrs. Chen might hire another twenty-something who was fluent in English. I wasn’t sure if my landlady was the real boss, however. The women mentioned someone called the Croc. I had never met the man, but I learned from them that he owned some shady businesses in the area and was also a coyote.

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