Full name: Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir

Author: Jillian Lauren Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Parenting Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780142181638 0142181633

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 her bestselling memoir, Some Girls. In her thirties, Jillian's most radical act is 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. "A punk rock Scheherazade" (Margaret Cho) shares the zigzagging path that took her from harem member to PTA member... Similar books: Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos This is US by David Marin The Family Nobody Wanted by Helen Doss No Biking in the House Without a Helmet by Melissa Fay Greene Faith to Foster by T. J. Menn An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken Half Baked by Alexa Stevenson Now I See the Moon by Elaine Hall This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman Waiting for Daisy by Peggy Orenstein Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott Lift by Kelly Corrigan The Shape of the Eye by George Estreich Some Girls by Jillian Lauren All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung The Exact Same Moon by Jeanne Marie Laskas Lucky girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood Found by Jennifer Lauck Forever Lily by Beth Nonte Russell The Kid by Dan Savage