num_pages: 336
description: 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 wiserAt 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 $20000 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.
language: English
title: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
publisher: Plume