Synopses & Reviews
A punk rock Scheherazade” (Margaret Cho) shares the zigzagging path that took her from being a member of a harem to motherhood.
Jillian Lauren is not your typical mom. In Everything You Ever Wanted, she recounts her journey of starting a family after a radically untraditional beginning that was fraught with sex, drugs and rock and roll and immortalized in the internationally bestselling memoir Some Girls.
With the same unflinching honesty displayed in Some Girls, Lauren chronicles how, after she loses her best friend to an overdose and her parents disown her, she is saved by her love for her adopted son with special needs. 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.
Review
“An irreverent, deeply honest love letter from a fascinating mother to an exceptional, inspiring child.” Ayelet Waldman, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Mother
Review
“Jillian Lauren's writing will take your breath away. With heartbreaking clarity, she deftly unfurls a story of becoming an adoptive mother and coming terms with her own childhood with candor and grace.” Annabelle Gurwitch, author of I See You Made an Effort
Synopsis
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 inthe Prince of Brunei s harem, an experience she immortalizedin 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 Wantedis a must-read for everyone, especially every mother, who has ever hoped for a second act in life."
About the Author
Jillian Lauren lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Weezer bass player, Scott Shriner, and their son, Tariku.