RECOMMENDED READ

My latestest book, The Yellow Ticket, follows a prostitute's life in mid-1800s Moscow. During its writing, I found the following book to be invaluable.

Sonia's Daughters
Prostitutes & Their Regulation in Imperial Russia
by Laurie Bernstein

Although Dr. Bernstein is a scholar renowned for her proficiency in Russian history, she penned Sonia's Daughters so that it can be appreciated by academics as well as the lay bookworm.  She skillfully guides the reader through the anguish and choicelessness of the ladies-of-the-night as well as the logic and folly of Russia's prostituion laws during the late 1800s.