In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare, a black porn queen, has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult entertainment industry after her tomcatting husband dies in a hot tub. Electrocuted. With another woman in there with him. Debbie decides she just isn't going to "do it anymore." But executing her exit strategy from the porn world is a wrenching and far from simple process. Millions of men (and no doubt many women) have watched famed black porn queen Debbie Dare—she of the blond wig and blue contacts-"do it" on television and computer screens every which way with every combination of partners the mind of man can imagine. But one day an unexpected and thunderous on-set orgasm catches Debbie unawares, and when she returns to the mansion she shares with her husband, insatiable former porn star and "film producer" Theon Pinkney, she discovers that he's died in a case of hot tub electrocution, "auditioning" an aspiring "starlet." Burdened with massive debts that her husband incurred, and which various L.A. heavies want to collect on, Debbie must reckon with a life spent in the peculiar subculture of the pornography industry and her estrangement from her family and the child she had to give up. She's done with porn, but her options for what might come next include the possibility of suicide. Debbie . . . is a portrait of a ransacked but resilient soul in search of salvation and a cure for grief.
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“Narrator Bahni Turpin delivers an
entertaining portrayal of Debbie Dare, thirty-one-year-old porn star
extraordinaire. This humorous yet sensitive novel features a woman who is
learning to cope after the death of her husband, a former porn star. Turpin’s
voice is bold and precise. She sounds curt at times but can be glib as well,
especially when speaking to those demanding payment for her husband’s debts.
Listening to Turpin is like watching a staged performance of Debbie’s unfolding
world as she copes with family traumas, attempts to leave the pornography
industry, and tries to ward off feelings of suicide. Turpin takes command of
the prose, whether Debbie is being intuitive or cerebral about the life she
wants to live. She delivers an absolutely engaging narration.”
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