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Title: Some Girls
Subtitle: My Life in a Harem
Author: Jillian Lauren
Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-16-10
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 299 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
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 18, 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 18 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.
Critic Reviews:
"Lauren... is a deft storyteller, imparting equal parts poignant reflection and wisdom into her enlightening book. A gritty, melancholy memoir leavened by the author's amiable, engrossing narrative tenor." (Kirkus Reviews)
"While the surprising and exotic subject matter is sure to pique interest, Laurens graceful, introspective prose lifts her unusual memoir far above the level of mere titillation." (Booklist)
