Real Easy

The primary setting is a strip club in rural Illinois, and all of the characters, other than the police officers, are the dancers, bouncers, customers, and owner of the club, or their friends and families. Rutkoski demonstrates that strip clubs can be filled with compelling, complex characters rather than clichéd stereotypes, providing a window into a mostly unknown world filled with women working their jobs as they would in any other type of work, navigating the inherent hazards while looking out for each other, and making their way in a world that demands the services they provide while simultaneously dismissing and/or penalizing them.