The Last Black Unicorn
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From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.
Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. If she could do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the other foster kids she lived with wouldn’t beat her up, and she might even get a boyfriend. Or at least she could make enough money—as the paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman—to get her hair and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend.
None of that worked (and she’s still single), but it allowed Tiffany to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a living: comedy.
Tiffany can’t avoid being funny—it’s just who she is, whether she’s plotting shocking, jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person’s mind-set. Finally poised to become a household name, she recounts with heart and humor how she came from nothing and nowhere to achieve her dreams by owning, sharing, and using her pain to heal others.
By turns hilarious, filthy, and brutally honest, The Last Black Unicorn shows the world who Tiffany Haddish really is—humble, grateful, down-to-earth, and funny as hell. And now, she’s ready to inspire others through the power of laughter.
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More of a 1.5... I sure wanted to like this book for its authenticity a whole lot more than I did. But the rampant ableism, anti-Blackness, classism, and massive heteronormativity kept tending to get in the way of that. Like, kept hoping she would step back and disavow that ableist BS around Roscoe in hindsight but she never did.
DNF'd at 26%. I really really tried to push through but my grammatical monster wouldn't let me. It's so poorly written and the flow is so jumbled up! She really tried to write it like a flow of her thoughts but it's just confusing. Also, the stories aren't really my cup of tea. Maybe if it was well written I would enjoy the stories but here I really don't.
The audio version is the way to go for this book. I listened to it on my way to work the other day and I was crying laughing so hard. There are more somber and downright depressing chapters as well. Nevertheless, the overall message I received was that of hope and finding the good sides in any situation.
Description
From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself.
Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. If she could do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the other foster kids she lived with wouldn’t beat her up, and she might even get a boyfriend. Or at least she could make enough money—as the paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman—to get her hair and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend.
None of that worked (and she’s still single), but it allowed Tiffany to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a living: comedy.
Tiffany can’t avoid being funny—it’s just who she is, whether she’s plotting shocking, jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person’s mind-set. Finally poised to become a household name, she recounts with heart and humor how she came from nothing and nowhere to achieve her dreams by owning, sharing, and using her pain to heal others.
By turns hilarious, filthy, and brutally honest, The Last Black Unicorn shows the world who Tiffany Haddish really is—humble, grateful, down-to-earth, and funny as hell. And now, she’s ready to inspire others through the power of laughter.
Book Information
Posts
More of a 1.5... I sure wanted to like this book for its authenticity a whole lot more than I did. But the rampant ableism, anti-Blackness, classism, and massive heteronormativity kept tending to get in the way of that. Like, kept hoping she would step back and disavow that ableist BS around Roscoe in hindsight but she never did.
DNF'd at 26%. I really really tried to push through but my grammatical monster wouldn't let me. It's so poorly written and the flow is so jumbled up! She really tried to write it like a flow of her thoughts but it's just confusing. Also, the stories aren't really my cup of tea. Maybe if it was well written I would enjoy the stories but here I really don't.
The audio version is the way to go for this book. I listened to it on my way to work the other day and I was crying laughing so hard. There are more somber and downright depressing chapters as well. Nevertheless, the overall message I received was that of hope and finding the good sides in any situation.