This Is Just My Face
Try Not to Stare
by Gabourey Sidibe
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Pub Date 7 Jun 2018 | Archive Date 7 Jul 2018
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Description
The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir which is wise, complex, smart and funny.
This Is Just My Face is the whirlwind tour of Gabourey Sidibe’s life so far. In it, we meet her polygamous father, her gifted mother who fed the family by busking on the subway, and the psychic who told her she’d one day be ‘famous like Oprah’.
Gabby shows us round the Harlem studio apartment where she grew up, relives the debilitating depression that hit her at college, and reminisces about her first ever job as a phone sex ‘talker’ (less creepy than you’d think).
With exhilaratingly honest (and often hilarious) dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight, This Is Just My Face will resonate with anyone who has ever felt different - and with anyone who has ever felt inspired to make a dream come true.
'Frank, funny, and insanely charming' Lena Dunham
'A read that lives up to the unforgettable attitude of its name' Glamour
'You’re the BOMB, girl!' President Barack Obama
Advance Praise
'A read that lives up to the unforgettable attitude of its name...This is Just My Face will make you fall in love with this funny, talented, gorgeous, bad bitch of a woman'
Glamour
'Gabourey Sidibe's memoir isn't your average celebrity memoir. It's good.
Really good. And not just because it's revealing (although that it is),
but because it's well-written... Observant and funny, but not indulgent
or try-hard'
Cosmopolitan
'A book you will want to give your daughter'
The New York Times
'"I just wrote the truth, and it made me feel better." That is the theme
of this unique and universal book by a young woman who is both a total
surprise and an instant classic. Gabby combines New York and Senegal,
the streets and the heights, bravery and self-doubt, laughing and
seriousness. Her truth helps us to find ours—and what could be a bigger
gift than that?'
Gloria Steinem
Marketing Plan
• Gabourey is the Oscar-nominated star of Precious, Empire and American Horror Story
• Gabourey is the Oscar-nominated star of Precious, Empire and American Horror Story
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781784708443 |
| PRICE | £7.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 256 |
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