Diary of a Married Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel (Nancy Chan Novels)

In this irreverent take on infidelity and modern marriage, newlywed topflight prostitute Nancy Chan finds herself struggling to adjust to the realities of domestic bliss. She's honing her respectable image as the wife of investment banker Matt, cooking fashionable meals and taking his shirts to the cleaners. But now that she and Matt share a home, it's getting harder to keep her career as an exclusive call girl a secret. Nancy fears what might happen if Matt finds out, but she can't quite bring herself to give up her financial independence. And now Matt wants to start a family. Motherhood could jeopardize her business--and what will it do to her body? Will Nancy have to give up her career to save her marriage? If you've ever had a naughty secret or struggled with competing desires, this funny, insightful romp will strike a chord. From the Trade Paperback edition. This is the diary of Nancy Chan, turn-of-the-millennium call girl, who lives and works on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Although she's in her thirties, she's at the top of her career–a better twenty-five-year-old today than when she was twenty-five. Most of her regulars don't realize how long she's been working. Her new fiancé, Matt, an up-and-coming M.B.A. on Wall Street, does know her age and how long she's been working but not what she does for a living. And at least for the time being, Nancy wants to keep it that way.Nancy is full of contradictory desires. She frequently has to choose between making love and making money. On good days, she gets to do both. Surrounded by devoted, wealthy, and powerful johns, some of whom want more than just sex, and caught between two complicated call girl friends who, shall we say, make her life more interesting than it really needs to be–not to mention an unwitting fiancé who has started to apartment hunt and arrange a wedding–Nancy navigates the tricky currents of the world's oldest profession. With one foot in the bedrooms of her rich and demanding clients and one in the straight world of her fiancé and his family, Nancy demonstrates, in her inimitable fashion, that if you know the dance, you can keep those two worlds from colliding. At least for a while.Based on the highly successful Salon.com column “Nancy Chan: Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl,” this wonderfully intelligent, sexually frank, rollicking novel gives us fresh insight into the machinations and politics of being an expensive call girl in the modern world. Tracy Quan pulls no punches, gives no apologies, and has written one of the best and most honest books yet on the topic.

Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl is a wonderfully intelligent, sexually frank, rollicking novel that introduces us to Nancy Chan, a turn-of-the-millennium call girl who lives and works on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Nancy is full of contradictory desires; she frequently has to choose between making love and making money. On good days, she gets to do both. Surrounded by devoted, wealthy, and powerful johns, some of whom want more than just sex, and caught between two all-consuming call girl friends who complicate her life, Nancy navigates the tricky currents of the world’s oldest profession. With one foot in the bedrooms of her rich and demanding clients and one in the straight world of her unwitting fiancé, who has started to apartment-hunt and arrange a wedding, Nancy keeps her two worlds from colliding in her inimitable style.

Follows the life of an Upper East Side call girl who has been balancing her life, work, and relationships well, until she becomes engaged to her boyfriend, who has no idea what she really does for a living Today I had the most embarrassing experience-with one of my regulars.