GenevaBookClub: Fisher beautifully brings readers the inside of Hollywood through a web of humor, drugs, relationships, Hollywood Party Terror, and much more. The plot centers on a 30-year-old actress named Suzanne Vale, and follows her challenges as she overcomes her drug addiction, gets back into the swing of things, and falls in love, sort of.

GenevaBookClub: Published in 1973; set in 1960s Singapore. Paul Theroux (born 1941) did a 3-year stint in Singapore where he taught at the English Department of the National University of Singapore Saint Jack was banned in Singapore for 30 years as it cast the country in an unfavourable light. His novel Jungle Lovers (1971) was similarly banned in Malawi for being critical of the government Brimming with sex, sleaze, and violence, Theroux’s gritty-yet-loving portrait of Singapore tells of an alienated American expat who works as a pimp, and how he struggles to make it big without losing his strange but strict code of morals.