This Is Just My Face : Try Not to Stare EPUB

TheOscar-nominatedPreciousstar andEmpireactress delivers amuch-awaitedmemoirwise, complex,smart, funnythat is different from anything weve read.

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Gabourey SidibeGabby to herlegion offansskyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Danielss acclaimedmoviePrecious.InThis is Just My Face,she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice asfreshandchallengingas many of the unique characters shes played onscreen.With full-throttle honesty,Sidibepaints her Bed-Stuy/Harlemfamily life with a polygamous fatherand a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibetellsthe engrossing,inspiringstoryofherfirst job as a phone sex talker. And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star, alongsidea superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom's apartment.

Sidibes memoirhits hard withself-knowingdispatchesonfriendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight (IfI could just get the world to see me the way I see myself, she writes,would my body still be a thing you walked away thinking about?). Irreverent, hilarious, and untraditional,This Is Just My Facetakesits place and fills a void on the shelf of writers from Mindy Kaling to David Sedaris to Lena Dunham.