An uncompromising story about the international sex trade by writer Tamara Faith Berger and artist Sophie Cossette.

In one reckless stab at making something of her life, Inna Rosca, a tough, young, Moldovan woman gets caught up in a human smuggling ring. Mendacity tells the tale of Inna’s navigation and survival of the brutal passage from her hometown, Chisinau, to a seedy brothel in Tel Aviv.

Trapped in the mendacious world of sex work, Inna’s intense, intellectual nature is compromised by the pimp who holds her captive. It is in the brothel, however, that she also meets Hersh – a religious Jewish john who seems to share her sensibilities. As Hersh provides Inna with unprovoked tenderness, Inna falls in love. And although they inhabit radically different realities, Inna and Hersh share the craving for momentous human connection within the contract of brothel-bound sex.

Mendacity, the latest 24-page release in Kiss Machine magazine’s new line of graphic novellas, describes the inescapable conditions that provoke so many young women to make the treacherous crossing – literally and psychologically – from hometown to brothel, while emphasizing the enduring power of the female survival instinct. Please note that it containst mature content.

About the Creators

Tamara Faith Berger is known for her challenging writing work focussing on female sexuality, balancing on the thin line between erotica and porn. She has published two novels, Lie With Me (Gutter Press 2001) and The Way of the Whore (Gutter Press 2004) which has been sold to Adaptec in Russia and Soft Skull Press in the US, both to be released in 2007. Lie With Me was made into a film in 2005 and has been shown at festivals all over the world. Tamara has been published in various magazines and periodicals including Elle Canada, Fireweed, Taddle Creek, Kiss Machine and This Magazine. She is presently working on a new novel.

Sophie Cossette has specialized in erotica and satirical porn comics throughout her career, publishing in Screw, Hustler, and Genesis magazines. She has also contributed material to Headpress, Killer Komix 2, and Anticristo. With her husband, Phil Liberbaum, and various collaborators, Sophie self-published the zine Sweet Smell of Sick Sex in the early nineties. Sophie is coming out with a children’s fairy tale book, Neuf fréres et une chévre, for Montreal’s Perceval Publications in April 2006.

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