{"product_id":"this-is-just-my-face","title":"This Is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Oscar-nominated \u003cem\u003ePrecious \u003c\/em\u003estar and \u003cem\u003eEmpire \u003c\/em\u003eactress delivers a much-awaited memoir—wise, complex, smart, funny—that is different from anything we’ve read.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of\u003cem\u003e Glamour\u003c\/em\u003e's\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e“Best Books to Read in 2017” * One of \u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e's “Most Anticipated Books for 2017” and “Best Books to Read in May” * One of \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine’s “22 Super-Revealing Celeb Memoirs to Read Right Now” * One of \u003cem\u003eHollywood Reporter\u003c\/em\u003e's “27 Books to Watch For in 2017” * One of \u003cem\u003eElite Daily\u003c\/em\u003e's “5 Celebs About to Light up the Red Carpet and Release Books in 2017” * One of \u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e's “20 Best Non-Fiction Books Coming in May 2017” * One of \u003cem\u003eHelloGiggles\u003c\/em\u003e’ “7 Celebrity Memoirs We Can't Wait to Read This Year” * One of \u003cem\u003eNylon\u003c\/em\u003e’s “50 Books We Can’t Wait To Read In 2017” * One of \u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e’s “9 Books By Celebrity Women Being Released in 2017 To Add To Your TBR” * One of \u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/em\u003e’s “10 Books You Need to Read in 2017”       \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabourey Sidibe—“Gabby” to her legion of fans—skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels’s acclaimed movie \u003cem\u003ePrecious.\u003c\/em\u003e In \u003cem\u003eThis is Just My Face\u003c\/em\u003e, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she’s played onscreen. With full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy\/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibe tells the engrossing, inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex “talker.” And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star, alongside “a superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom's apartment.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSidibe’s memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight (“If I could just get the world to see me the way I see myself,” she writes, “would my body still be a thing you walked away thinking about?”). Irreverent, hilarious, and untraditional, \u003cem\u003eThis Is Just My Face\u003c\/em\u003e takes its place and fills a void on the shelf of writers from Mindy Kaling to David Sedaris to Lena Dunham.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46248000848082,"sku":"9781443449380","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46248000880850,"sku":"fb60842e-647b-38f5-8434-94378b4cdfbf","price":11.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_50f99d10-8b03-4540-9c37-495724a8ca88.jpg?v=1763222155","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/this-is-just-my-face","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}