The Last Black Unicorn
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THE LAST BLACK UNICORN Included in Glamour’s list of “All the Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018” • One of People.com’s “41 Super-Revealing Celeb Memoirs to Read Right Now” • Selected by Bustle as one of “13 Nonfiction Books About the Women Who Revolutionized Comedy in America” and one of “9 New Celebrity Books Out This Year You Should Definitely Add to Your TBR List” • Featured in W Magazine’s “The 10 Best Memoirs of 2017 Were All Written by Women” • One of InStyle’s “5 New Books That Are So Good, You Won’t Even Realize
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honesty that won our hearts in the first place.” —Shondaland.com “Brutally honest and hilarious.” —InStyle.com “We love a good story of overcoming adversity and Tiffany Haddish is a true testament of that sentiment.” —BET.com “This book is exactly what you would expect from Tiffany Haddish— funny, crazy surprising and magical.” —Michigan Chronicle
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Hello, my name is Tiffany Haddish. I would like to invite you to read about a few of my experiences in life so far. I know that a lot of these stories will seem unbelievable. Shit, I look back over my life and I’m like, “For real, that happened?” Either you will cry or laugh, and I try my best to figure out how to do the second one. I know life is no laughing matter, but having experiences can be. They can be the best learning lessons—just fuck ups but still lessons. That’s how I think of my life, all my wins are lessons and all my failures are lessons that will one day become wins. I decided ...more
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Mascots and Bar Mitzvahs: High School Years School was hard for me, for lots of reasons. One was I couldn’t read until, like, ninth grade. Also I was a foster kid for most of high school, and when my mom went nuts, I had to live with my grandma. That all sucked. I got popular in high school, but before that, I wasn’t so popular. Kids would tease me all the time in elementary and middle school. They’d say I got flies on me and I smell like onions. The flies thing came from the moles on my face. I got one under my eye, I had one on my chin, and so on. That was kind of mean. The onions thing was ...more