The last black unicorn

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Tiffany Haddish: The last black unicorn (2017)

278 pages

English language

Published Oct. 19, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-5011-8182-5
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OCLC Number:
983269684

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4 stars (13 reviews)

"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 foster care system, and certainly not the nearly all white high school she had to ride the bus an hour to attend. As an illiterate ninth grader, Tiffany did everything she could to survive. After a multitude of jobs, she finally realized that she had talent in an area she never would have suspected: comedy. Tiffany faced the 'routine' hindrances of climbing the entertainment business ladder--but had the added obstacles of sex, race, and class in her way. But …

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The back cover copy says this is both funny and heartbreaking and that gave me pause for a moment because I don't like sad books. Ultimately I decided to give it a try in the hopes that the cover was exaggerating the heartbreaking part. Sadly, it wasn't. But! Tiffany does a really good job about not dwelling on the sad parts of her life. Even the really terrible things she manages to talk about in a way that made me giggle. Like many of the other people leaving reviews about this, I first learned of Tiffany through her role on Girls Trip, but reading this I see there's a lot of her comedy backlist to catch up on.

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Subjects

  • African American women comedians
  • Anecdotes
  • Biography
  • African American actors