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Life as a Unicorn
- A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between
- Lu par : Amrou Al-Kadhi
- Durée : 7 h et 32 min
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Description
A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself.
Winner of A Somerset Maugham Award.
Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020.
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself....
Amrou knew they were gay when, aged 10, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first sight. Amrou’s parents weren’t so happy....
From that moment on, Amrou began searching in all the wrong places for ways to make their divided self whole again. Unicorn is a hilarious yet devastating story of a search for belonging, following the painful and surprising process of transforming from a god-fearing Muslim boy to a queer drag queen, strutting the stage in seven-inch heels and saying the things nobody else dares to....
Commentaires
"It should be [shared] far and wide." (Ian McKellen)
"This book is as rare, fabulous and beautiful as the creature it is named for. A masterpiece of psychology, a major study of Islam and a definitive study of drag, it made me cry, it made me rage and it made me hoot. Full of anger, insight and philosophy, along with some cracking great gags, this is a magnificent and essential document of the 21st century. It moved my heart and soul." (Russell T. Davies)
"A heartbreaking, healing book. it will make you better." (Simon Amstell)
