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2017.
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English
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The popular comedian traces her youth in Atlanta's most troubled neighborhood at the height of the crack epidemic, discussing her experiences with petty crime and prostitution that led to her becoming a mother at age thirteen before resolving to secure a better life for her children.
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"From stand-up comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish comes The Last Black Unicorn, a hilarious, edgy, and heart-wrenching collection of autobiographical essays that will leave you laughing through tears. Tiffany Haddish grew up in one of the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles. Her mother wound up with a debilitating brain injury after surviving a car accident. Tiffany never fit in anywhere: not in the households she rotated through in the...
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Publisher
Andscape
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"WELCOME TO A COMEDIC TRIP THROUGH THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE COUNTRY'S MOST EXCITING COMEDIANS. MEET DULCÉ SLOAN, WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY FILLED WITH LESSONS AND LAUGHTER. IN ADDITION TO DOING STAND-UP AROUND THE WORLD, DULCÉ IS A TRAINED ACTOR, SINGER, AND HAS BEEN A CORRESPONDENT ON THE DAILY SHOW ON COMEDY CENTRAL. Dulcé Sloan's first memoir is organized into essays from her life. From a childhood moving between cities, starting...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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By the time Chloé Hilliard was 12, she wore a size 12both shoe and dressand stood over six feet tall. Fitting in was never an option. That didnt stop her from trying. Cursed with a “slow metabolism,” “baby weight,” and “big bones,”the fat trilogyChloe turned to fad diets, starvation, pills, and workouts, all of which failed.Realizing that everythingfrom government policies to corporate capitalismdirectly impacts our relationship with...
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Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"A painfully revealing and hilariously honest debut memoir that chronicles Sarah Cooper's rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching to the president of the United States. As the youngest of four in a tight-knit Jamaican family, Cooper cut her teethin the mean cornfields of suburban Maryland. Soon she became a charmingly neurotic woman trying to break her worst patterns and reclaim her linen closet. From an early obsession with hair bands to...
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