This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare - Gabourey Sidibe

Descriere This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare - Gabourey Sidibe

\nGabourey Sidibe's delightful memoir offers a memorable look into what happens when a black girl's dreams come true, from the inside out. Sidibe is fearless, incredibly funny, and gorgeously open. What she offers of herself in these pages is a gift.--Roxane Gay \n In This Is Just My Face, Gabourey Sidibe--the gives-zero-effs queen of Hollywood AND perceptive best friend in your head (Lena Dunham)--paints her unconventional rise to fame with full-throttle honesty. Sidibe tells engrossing, inspiring stories about her Bed-Stuy/Harlem/Senegalese family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway, her first job as a phone sex talker, and her Oscar-nominated role in Lee Daniels's Precious. \n Sidibe's memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, celebrity, weight, haters, fashion, race, and depression (Sidibe's heartfelt exploration of insecurity . . . makes us love her --O Magazine). Irreverent, hilarious, and untraditional, 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. \n \n This memoir is] a book you will want to give your daughter. --New York Times \n \n Sidibe's hilarious Twitter account is no fluke--the Empire actress's memoir about growing up in New York City and finding unexpected fame in Hollywood is sharp, witty, and wonderfully substantive. --Entertainment Weekly\n

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Mariner Books

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9781328915801

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