Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir - Paperback

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Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir - Paperback

Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir - Paperback

by Jillian Lauren
$27.00
$27.00

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by Jillian Lauren (Author)

A Best Memoir of 2015, "This memoir is compulsively readable and full of humor and heart."--AdoptiveFamilies.com

"A punk rock Scheherazade" (Margaret Cho) shares the zigzagging path that took her from harem member to PTA member...

In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLS. In her thirties, Jillian's most radical act was learning the steadying power of love when she and her rock star husband adopt an Ethiopian child with special needs. After Jillian loses a close friend to drugs, she herself is saved by her fierce, bold love for her son as she fights to make him--and herself--feel safe and at home in the world.

Exploring complex ideas of identity and reinvention, Everything You Ever Wanted is a must-read for everyone, especially every mother, who has ever hoped for a second act in life.

Author Biography

Jillian Lauren lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Weezer bass player, Scott Shriner, and their son, Tariku.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN
Publication Date: May 05, 2015
ISBN9780142181638
Author Jillian Lauren
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
GenreBiography and Relationships
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2015
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Jillian Lauren is a writer, storyteller, mom, and rock-wife. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Everything You Ever Wanted and Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, and the novel Pretty. Some Girls has been translated into 18 different languages and is currently being adapted for TV. She has written for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, Elle, The Daily Beast and Salon, among others. She lives with her husband, musician Scott Shriner, and their two sons in Los Angeles.

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