What Sort of Woman: an erotic memoir

Élise is surviving as a high school French teacher in California, parenting her pre-teen sons, trying to create a better life for them than the childhood she was given. Then an anonymous letter lands in her school cubby: YOU NEED TO WAKE UP. Seth is having an affair behind your back. Seth, her live-in boyfriend, is not just a boyfriend but a Sugar Daddy. Recently, Élise has been secretly saving money for her family as a paid girlfriend, a job that has proven to be occasionally unpalatable, but mostly gratifying. Now, furious and unmoored, she logs back onto the Sugar Daddy site, intrigued by a new man professing to be a proper Dom someone who can satiate her sexual appetite. What follows is a candid, explicit, and poignant personal journey. What Sort of Woman is an exploration and celebration of sex but it's also about socioeconomic longing, the echoes of trauma, and the delicate rules around being a "good" girl, woman, and mother. Beneath it all lies a dynamic and inspiring recovery memoir, examining the layers of selfhood found in sobriety, and what it takes for one woman to love herself after decades of familial, sexual, and spiritual subjugation.