Description: Construing all of life as a journey that takes us from innocence to knowledge, Eve's Striptease suggests that the maps that we need for this journey may be found written on our own bodies. Julia Kasdorf writes of a life's migrations, tracing paths that joyfully enlarge our definitions of love and longing - sometimes embracing conventional values and sometimes subverting them.
Review Quotes: It may initially seem as though Kasdorf has meant to shock the home folks with her new book. Think of her overall themes: Mennonites and sex, a novel connection. Yet Eve's Striptease uses these two lenses to focus on the world. However, viewing the book only in terms of ethnicity and biology trivializes what is a significant work by a brilliant young poet. . . . it is a book about coming to terms with one's sexuality and how that affects one's place in the world. As with Sleeping Preacher, Kasdorf's new work moves through the dichotomous worlds of rural and urban, tradition and innovation, innocence and experience.-- "Pittsburgh Quarterly"