Steffie Can't Come Out to Play by Fran Arrick

I want to shake her and say, “Are you crazy? The guy wears gold chains and calls you ‘sweet face’ and wants to watch you put on pantyhose!”īut it’s hard to put down. The girl is fourteen and the things she does for her “Favor” are disturbing. I’m reading the book now, and as an adult, it reads much differently than it did when I was twelve. (Who doesn’t want to run away at some point when they’re a tween?) As a kid I was completely engrossed and felt Steffie’s plight. It’s about a fourteen-year-old girl who runs away from the doldrums of her life in small-town Pennsylvania and winds up in NYC hooking for a smooth-talking pimp named “Favor”. The book is called Steffie Can’t Come out to Playby Fran Arrick. I posted a while back that, after years of searching, I found a book I loved as a kid. Scott Fitzgerald fiction film George Orwell gifts haiku Haruki Murakami Hemingway Huffington Post humor Huruki Murakami James Frey James Joyce Jeffery Eugenides Jennifer Egan KGB Bar Kindle Kurt Vonnegut language Laura Kasischke letters libraries Lorrie Moore New York City New Yorker Oedipus old words Peru Philadelphia phrase phrases poetry publishing Ray Bradbury reading reviews sex Steffie Can't Come Out to Play Stephen King Sylvia Plath Tea Obreht teen book The Great Gatsby The Guardian The Huffington Post The Literary Review the National Book Foundation The New Yorker the New York Times The Tiger's Wife To Kill a Mockingbird Truman Capote word origin words writers writing young adult 1970s 2011 Amazon authors award banned best of lists biography Black Friday books bookshelves Breakfast at Tiffany's cats David Foster Wallace David Guterson Don Dellilo English Etsy F.Jennifer Egan Using Twitter to Pen “Black Box”.*All creepy opinions expressed are those of the hosts and guests.

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Kelly and Katai debate the book's saddest moment, Google 'Do pimps really dress like that?' AND discuss sex workers, sex trafficking legislation, Incels, misogyny, and more.Īnd a big thank you to one of our listeners who works in anti-human trafficking and recommended the following resource: A somber detour leads to some important conversations as Kelly and Katai dig into 'the original Lifetime movie,' Fran Arrick's Steffie Can't Come Out To Play, the story of a fourteen year old runaway who falls victim to sex trafficking in New York City.

Steffie Can't Come Out to Play by Fran Arrick