Bar flower; my decadently destructive days and nights as a Tokyo nightclub hostess.

9780312368975

Bar flower; my decadently destructive days and nights as a Tokyo nightclub hostess.

Jacobson, Lea.

St. Martin's Press

2008

340 pages

$24.95

Hardcover

HV5137

The psychiatrist told her she was not normal because she used medication to get through plane trips. His letter divulging her need for medication to her employer got her fired from her teaching job. She took a job as a hostess in a nightclub, which she assumed was something along the line of being a geisha, because other women she had seen who were hostesses seemed to carry it all off with elegance and grace. However, these women were largely working to support their entire families, and endured night after night enticing businessmen to drink. As Jacobson descended into the "floating world" of the nightclubs, she learned to develop a fake personality to endure the fantasy culture in which she worked and then lived. She describes her experiences in an honest, thoroughly subjective narrative.

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