Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

Jillian Lauren

Aug 2010 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Tavia Gilbert

About this audiobook

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, the 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 book 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.

About the author

Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Some Girls and the novel Pretty. Jillian holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University, and her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications.

Audie Award finalist Tavia Gilbert is a classical theater and public radio-trained actress who has earned AudioFile Earphones and Parents' Choice awards for her audiobook narrations. Tavia has narrated more than 250 multicast and single-voice audiobooks.