The Star: A book=a journey

At the age of 17 I read my first American novel that was not listed in my studies, it was a novel I found my step mother reading and loved to read it as well, it was called the Betsy by Harold Robbins, through this novel, I learnt aspects about the intimate ... in their rooms - before they go back to their country and the house keeper would take that book and give it to the Hotel Library Keeper who would have her LE 5 or 7 for the book, while he resell it for 20 or 25. ...