This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

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Description

The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir—wise, complex, smart, funny—a version of the American experience different from anything we’ve read

Gabourey Sidibe—“Gabby” to her legion of fans—skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels’s acclaimed movie Precious. In This Is Just My Face, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as most of the unique characters she’s played onscreen. With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy/Harlem circle of relatives life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by making a song within the subway. Sidibe tells the engrossing, inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex “talker.” And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star, alongside “a superstar cast of wealthy individuals who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers even as I lived in my mom’s apartment.” 
 
Sidibe’s memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight (“If I could just get the world to see me the way in which I see myself,” she writes, “would my body still be a thing you walked away occupied with?”). Irreverent, hilarious, and untraditional, This Is Just My Face will resonate with any person who has ever felt different, and with any person who has ever felt inspired to make a dream come true. 


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