One early September night in Florida, April, a stripper at the "Puma Club for Men" brings her daughter to work when her usual babysitter is in the hospital.

Meanwhile, AJ, another man, has been thrown out of the club for holding hands with his favorite stripper, and he's drunk, angry and lonely.

[1][2] John Dufresne with the Boston Sunday Globe said the book was "storytelling of the finest kind: unforgettable and desperate characters caught up in a plot thundering toward catastrophe".

"[2] In 2013, Millennium Entertainment signed on to finance the film adaptation of the novel, with Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, Danielle Robinson and Hanna Weg to produce it.

[3] However, in June 2013, James Franco, who was to direct and star in the film, pulled out of the project after not being able to agree with Millennium on a production crew.