This Is Just My Face

<p>"Gabourey Sidibe's delightful memoir offers a memorable look into what happens when a black girl's dreams come true from the inside out. Sidibe is fearless incredibly funny and gorgeously open. What she offers of herself in these pages is a gift."--Roxane Gay<br /><br />In <em>This Is Just My Face </em> Gabourey Sidibe--the "gives-zero-effs queen of Hollywood AND perceptive best friend in your head" (Lena Dunham)--paints her unconventional rise to fame with full-throttle honesty. Sidibe tells engrossing inspiring stories about her Bed-Stuy/Harlem/Senegalese family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway her first job as a phone sex "talker" and her Oscar-nominated role in Lee Daniels's <em>Precious.</em><br />Sidibe's memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship celebrity weight haters fashion race and depression ("Sidibe's heartfelt exploration of insecurity . . . makes us love her" --<em>O Magazine</em>). Irreverent hilarious and untraditional <em>This Is Just My Face</em> will resonate with anyone who has ever felt different and with anyone who has ever felt inspired to make a dream come true.<br /><br />"This memoir [is] a book you will want to give your daughter." --<em>New York Times </em><br /><br />"Sidibe's hilarious Twitter account is no fluke--the <em>Empire</em> actress's memoir about growing up in New York City and finding unexpected fame in Hollywood is sharp witty and wonderfully substantive." <strong>--</strong><em>Entertainment Weekly</em></p>