Some Girls

My Life in a Harem

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Jillian Lauren: Some Girls (2011, Random House Australia)

352 pages

English language

Published May 21, 2011 by Random House Australia.

ISBN:
978-1-74275-036-1
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From Amazon: 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 …

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Subjects

  • Prostitutes
  • Identity (psychology)
  • Borneo, history
  • Women, united states, biography