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Characters

Lulu/Lucia: Lucia is a girl who lives in San Francisco who decides at a young age to become a whore. She seduces an older man named Lu to bone her and immediately gets pregnant. She decides to follow him back to China to become a full-time whore and open a whorehouse.

 

Violet: Violet is a half-self-hating half-Chinese girl, the bastard daughter of Lulu and Lu. At a young age she is separated from Lulu and happily settles into the life of a prostitute. Most of the book describes how she lets various guys bang her. She has three husbands, Edward, Perpetual, and Loyalty.

 

Flora: Flora is Violet's and Edward's daughter, but, having been kidnapped by Edward's family, doesn't know Violet is her mother. She quickly decides to become a whore and lets young men bone her.

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Magic Gourd: Magic Gourd is a whore who is Violet's best friend. She looks after Violet like a mother, teaching her how to become a whore at the age of 15. Just like a mom would do for her child, heh heh.

 

Golden Dove: Golden Dove is a whore who is Lulu's best friend. It seems every woman in this book is a whore, right?

 

Loyalty Fang: Loyalty is Violet's first love and her first customer when she became a prostitute at the age of 15. But Violet would get jealous that Loyalty would bang other whores as well. Violet felt that when she was Loyalty's whore, he looked down on her and treated her like a whore, which she was. Later, they fought, broke up, fought, broke up, fought, broke up, and got married. The reason he is called Loyalty is because he is very, very loyal to his p_nis. But not much else.

 

Edward:  Edward was Violet's first husband. He was a white guy and she liked white guys. The only problem is that Violet wasn't really married to him because Edward was married to another wife. Edward was mentally ill and upset over a time in his life when someone fell into the river and died because he played with a doll. If this makes no sense to you then I can tell you are reading closely. Anyway, Edward squirts a baby named Flora into Violet, who is kidnapped by Edward's real wife after he dies.

 

Perpetual: Perpetual is a poet whose poems makes Violet's nipples get hard. She loves his poetry so much that she marries him, and returns to his remote mountain village. He is called Perpetual because he perpetually bones and beats the crap out of her.

 

Fairweather: Fairweather is a con man who arranges for Violet to be separated from her mother and enslaved into a life of whoredom. But don't worry, Violet quickly learns to love being a whore, it's the family business.

 

Lu Shing: Lu Shing is a Chinese painter who is seduced by Lulu. Squirt! Squirt! Squirt! And then Violet is created.

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