Miss Jill: A Novel

A novel about an enterprising Shanghai streetwalker from the "American literary treasure" and author of the memoir China to Me (The New Yorker).

Meet Miss Jill, a young woman pursuing the oldest profession in prewar Shanghai. Fifteen, blonde, and full of personality, Jill begins her career as a Japanese banker's mistress. Soon after, she becomes a European prostitute in the house of Annette, and believes that any day now she'll be married to a nobleman. But none of her adventures prepare ...