| Our Type of Belated Mother's Day Luncheon. 
 This will be a two-course "lite luncheon." |
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| The Luncheon Society Welcomes Jillian Lauren Author, Speaker, Memoirist New York Times Best-Selling Author Author Everything You Ever Wanted
Also author of Pretty Some Girls-My Life in a Harem
Join us for a conversation with Jillian Lauren as she goes from a member of the
Prince of Brunei's harem to a Rock and Roll wife who is a member of the PTA. These are her adventures in adoption. Fior d'Italia 2237 Mason Street San Francisco, CA
Thursday May 21, 2015 Noon. $45
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Jillian Lauren speaks of adoption at TEDxChapman U
"A punk rock Scheherazade." Margaret Cho
 Jillian Lauren 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 every mother and everyone who has ever hoped for a second act in life.
Advance Praise for Everything You Ever Wanted
Jillian Lauren's writing will take your breath away. Writing with heartbreaking clarity, she deftly unfurls a story of becoming an adoptive mother and coming terms with her own childhood with a winning candor and grace.
- Annabelle Gurwitch, NY Times bestselling author of I See You Made an Effort
Everything You Ever Wanted is a transformative, unflinching account of the creation of an adoptive family. Jillian and Scott and their son Tariku show us, painful, frustrating and joyful step by step how to attach, heal, listen, trust and then let go. A testament to the fierce and fallible journey of any mother. Reads like a novel, moves you like any great story of survival would, to tears of joy and triumph.
-Jamie Lee Curtis
More.....
If you'd like a little teaser, there was an excerpt in last month's Elle magazine. http://bit.ly/1RlmKoV
Another excerpt just came out today in Harper's Bazaar. http://bit.ly/1zRK5ZT
And here's an interview with me at Hip Mama.
http://bit.ly/1F4k5uw
Please visit my website
http://www.jillianlauren.com/
Only one question-are you in? |
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| Lite Luncheon The Luncheon Society gathering with Jillian Lauren will take place in San Francisco on Thursday May 21, 2015. The lunch will begin at 12 noon and will run for a little longer than an hour. The Restaurant. The luncheon will take place at Fior d'Italia in San Francisco. We will be meeting in their private room. The restaurant is located at 2237 Mason Street. The phone number is 415.986.1886. The website is http://www.fior.com/ Map http://mapq.st/18MYsCr
The Price. Like in all TLS events, we basically split the check. Based on conversations with Fior d'Italia, the cost for the gathering will be $45.00 per person for a great 2 course luncheon. Where to Park. Valet parking will be available. Books Jillian will graciously sign books.
Our Very Modest Annual Dues.
If you need to handle this, please do
Cancellations
Sometimes, as they say in the movies, life intercedes. If you wish to attend but have a change in plans, please let me know 72 hours prior so that I can inform the restaurant.
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| Dining Choices. The "Lite Luncheon" will have a starter and a main entr?e. Let me know about any dietary issues or restrictions. |
| Biography 
Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and the novel, Pretty, both published by Plume/Penguin. Some Girls has been translated into seventeen different languages. Her next memoir, Everything You Ever Wanted, is coming out from Plume in 2014. Jillian has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine and Salon.com among others and has been anthologized widely, including in The Moth Anthology, True Tales of Lust and Love and Best of Babble Blogs. She has performed at spoken word and storytelling events across the country, including being a regular on The Moth mainstage, and has been interviewed on such television programs as The View, Good Morning America and Howard Stern. She is a popular and sometimes controversial blogger at MSNBC, The Huffington Post andJillianlauren.com, which was named a Top 100 Mom Blog of 2012 by Babble Magazine. Jillian is married to Weezer bass player Scott Shriner. They live in Los Angeles with their son.
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| The Luncheon Society?
is a series of private luncheons and dinners that take place in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Boston and now Seattle and soon Washington DC. We essentially split the costs of gathering and we meet in small groups. Discussions center on politics, art, science, film, culture, and whatever else is on our mind. Think of us as "Adult Drop in Daycare." We've been around since 1997 and we're purposely understated. These gatherings takes place around a large table, where you interact with the main guest and conversation becomes end result. There are no rules, very little structure, and the gatherings happen when they happen. Join us when you can. Hope you can join us. Bob McBarton [email protected] The Luncheon Society cell 925.216.9578 Twitter: @LuncheonSociety
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