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Some Girls
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A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser
At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.
More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.
At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.
More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.
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“It definitely didn’t live up to the endorsements on the cover. It’s a pretty forgettable book.
When I read a memoir I always imagine meeting the person and hearing their story in real life. I don’t think I’d enjoy knowing this author.”Lou-dee
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kylie boyer
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“this was one i picked up because i couldn’t find another book from brunei and i was hooked immediately. slow at times but this is the story of just a girl who goes through some crazy life events with some very shitty people and a need to be loved”Priscilla Ott
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“This is this stereotype about any woman who works in the sex industry - they must be weak, they must be desperate, they must have no standards, they must be skanks, etc. Let me tell you this: this book is about one of the strongest people I've ever read about. Who also worked in the sex industry. it takes a certain strength that I don't think many are capable of to use your body in this way. If you are expecting a salacious or fluff filled memoir regaling trampy times spend abroad, you will be surprised. Equal parts glamourous, tragic, heartbreaking, and unbelievable, I love Jillian's style, metaphors, wit, and, most especially, her strength. It's impressive to turn the enormity of being a harem girl for a prince into the secondary story in your book - her "other life" and the times between Brunei almost let me forget the rest. Also notable, the question - what would Patti Smith do? And Jillian's quiet romance with NYC - reminds me so much of my own standards (what would Elton John do?) and love affair with the city. I admittedly got a little choked up reading about the Patti show on the Santa Montica pier - the kind of moment your realize your entire life thus far has been leading up to. I have been wanting to read this book for a long time, and I'm so, so glad I finally did.”
About Jillian Lauren
Jillian Lauren is a writer, storyteller, mom, and rock-wife. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Everything You Ever Wanted and Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, and the novel Pretty. Some Girls has been translated into 18 different languages and is currently being adapted for TV. She has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Elle, The Daily Beast and Salon, among others.
She lives with her husband, musician Scott Shriner, and their two sons in Los Angeles.
www.jillianlauren.com
She lives with her husband, musician Scott Shriner, and their two sons in Los Angeles.
www.jillianlauren.com
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