Red Light Wives.Red Light Wives by Mary Monroe Monroe. 1 Industrial city (1990 pop. 54,909), seat of Ouachita parish, SE La., on the Ouachita River; founded c.1785, inc. as a city 1900. The center of the great Monroe Natural Gas Field (discovered 1915), it has important chemical plants, as well as pulp, paper, and lumber mills. Automotive parts are also manufactured. The first settlers founded (c.1785) Fort Miró. Kensington Publishing Corp. September 2004, $24, ISBN 0-758-20342-X Romance may be dead, but happy endings are still very alive in Red Light Wives, Monroe's third major step into the literary world in which she vividly details the paths leading to and the troubles inherent in the oldest profession in the world. Monroe guides her audience through the lives of six vastly different women who have all crossed the same twisted path. While some of the characters suffer from cliche or stagnancy, others are the true testaments to Monroe's craft. Only time and extreme circumstances--some plausible, some not--bring these six women back to their more righteous places in life. Full of emotion, Red Light Wives is a piece of art that is truly unconventional and unsurpassable. Arin M. Lawrence is a writer in New York City. |
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