GABOUREY SIDIBE is an award-winning actress who is best known for the title role of Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire. She has since starred as Queenie in FX's American Horror Story: Coven and Denise in Difficult People, and can currently be seen as Becky on Fox's smash hit sensation Empire. This Is Just My Face is her first book.
One of Glamour's "Best Books to Read in 2017"
One of Entertainment Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books for 2017" and
"Best Books to Read in May"
One of People's "22 Super-Revealing Celeb Memoirs to Read Right
Now"
One of Hollywood Reporter's "27 Books to Watch For in 2017"
One of Elite Daily's "5 Celebs About to Light up the Red Carpet and
Release Books in 2017"
One of Bustle's "20 Best Non-Fiction Books Coming in May 2017"
"This memoir [is] a book you will want to give your daughter."
--The New York Times "Sidibe's hilarious Twitter account is no
fluke--the Empire actress' memoir about growing up in New York City
and finding unexpected fame in Hollywood is sharp, witty, and
wonderfully substantive." --Entertainment Weekly "A read that lives
up to the unforgettable attitude of its name...This is Just My Face
will make you fall in love with this funny, talented, gorgeous, bad
bitch of a woman." --Glamour "A mix of complexity, intelligence and
humor, Gabby's book promises to be as big a success as her acting."
--People "Her talent to entertain...is evident on every
page...Genuine and accessible...[Sidibe] has so much material from
her childhood and adolescence that she might have been able to sell
a memoir before she landed her first movie role...This Is Just My
Face doesn't capture just Sidibe that celebrity, but Sidibe the
storyteller." --The A.V. Club "Funny and revealing." --Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette "Gabourey Sidibe's memoir isn't your average celebrity
memoir. It's good. Really good. And not just because it's revealing
(although that it is), but because it's well-written... Observant
and funny, but not indulgent or try-hard." --Cosmopolitan Online
"Gabby hilariously, radically, and fearlessly holds nothing back in
This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare. And we love her for it."
--HelloGiggles, "7 Celebrity Memoirs We Can't Wait to Read This
Year" "A funny, smart memoir." --Nylon, "50 Books We Can't Wait To
Read In 2017" "Unflinchingly honest." --Bustle, "9 Books By
Celebrity Women Being Released in 2017 To Add To Your TBR"
"Gabourey Sidibe has a knack for speaking her mind in ways both
touching and hilarious." --Cosmopolitan, "10 Books You Need to Read
in 2017" "[Sidibe] delivers a much-awaited memoir--wise, complex,
smart, funny--a version of the American experience different from
anything we've read... Irreverent, hilarious, and untraditional,
This Is Just My Face takes its place and fills a void on the shelf
of writers from Mindy Kaling to David Sedaris to Lena Dunham."
--BookBub "You're the BOMB, girl!"--President Barack Obama
"Gabourey Sidibe's delightful memoir This Is Just My Face: Try Not
To Stare offers a memorable look into what happens when a black
girl's dreams come true, from the inside out. From her unique
childhood as the daughter of a subway singer mother and polygamous
father to struggling with depression to getting the role of
Precious, Sidibe is fearless, incredibly funny and gorgeously open.
What she offers of herself in these pages is a gift."--Roxane Gay
"Here, Gabourey Sidibe cements her status as gives-zero-effs queen
of Hollywood AND perceptive best friend in your head. Frank, funny,
and insanely charming, these stories reveal the girl behind the
gown and show Hollywood for what it really is: a wet t-shirt
contest of an industry that sometimes redeems itself by picking the
right star. Gabby is that star, and you'll root for her on every
page--we are blessed by her honesty, passion and wit."--Lena Dunham
"'I just wrote the truth, and it made me feel better.' That is the
theme of this unique and universal book by a young woman who is
both a total surprise and an instant classic. Gabby combines New
York and Senegal, the streets and the heights, bravery and
self-doubt, laughing and seriousness. Her truth helps us to find
ours--and what could be a bigger gift than that?"--Gloria Steinem
"To know Gabby is to love Gabby. To read her book is to love her
even more. It is bold, brave, on-your-front-foot writing. Her story
inspires you to step up and own your life with a compassion and
confidence so potent that it will break down any door."--Laura
Linney "I always knew Gabby was magic."--Johnetta Elzie
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