Miss Jill

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 Miss Jill for the war and her subsequent internment. ? An early feminist and an American journalist who traveled to the Belgian Congo and China in the 1930s, Emily Hahn wrote more than fifty books, both fiction and nonfiction; this is Hahn at her touching and entertaining best, portraying an exotic place in a dramatic time with great authenticity and empathy. ?