Interesting book! I had only read a review but thought it sounded interesting and it was. It is the true life story of the author and her experience in a harem and how she got there in the first place. One of the early quotes she uses is from Talking Heads - "And you may ask yourself, well...how did I get here?"
Because I am so far behind in posting, I am just going to copy the review from Amazon. I know - what a cheat I am!
"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."
Because I am so far behind in posting, I am just going to copy the review from Amazon. I know - what a cheat I am!
"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."
I would like to read this one! Do you own it? If so, would you be able to bring it along next month when you visit?
ReplyDeleteI will tuck it in the suitcase.
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