Reading: Lisa Birnbaum

"Worthy" is the story of Ludmila, or Worthy, as she comes to be known, a “former” con artist from Eastern Europe managing an eccentric, failing strip club in Tampa for her lover, Leo. With the linguistic acrobatics of Eimear McBride’s "A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing" and the confessional force of "The Fall," Lisa Birnbaum weaves a lively tale of elusive truth about finding our way in the world, as love is inevitably lost and left behind.