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Manboobs - A queer memoir (Paperback)
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Manboobs - A queer memoir (Paperback)
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List price R420
Loot Price R305
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You Save R115 (27%)
To be released on 23 September 2024. You can pre-order this product. We should be able to ship between Tuesday, 1 Oct 2024 and Tuesday, 8 Oct 2024.
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The hilarious and piercing memoir about growing up gay in a not-so-gay
world.
I’m just a man, standing in front of a salad, asking it to be a cake.
What do you do when you’re too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be
gay in America and you’re ashamed of your body everywhere?
How can you find happiness despite years of humiliation, fear and a
legion of Brooklyn hipsters who know you only as a queer from
Whereveristan?
How do you summon the courage to be yourself no matter where you are?
Even as a young child in Lahore, Komail Aijazuddin knew he was
different. Other boys didn’t pirouette off their desks, get bullied for
their ‘manboobs’ or spontaneously burst into songs from The Little
Mermaid. Other boys didn’t play together like that.
Starved of a crucial part of himself, he ate. And ate. Before long, his
own body became another burden to carry everywhere and to hide. Komail
began to believe his only chance at a happy, meaningful life would be
found elsewhere: in America, land of the free, home of the gays. But he
would soon learn that finding happiness takes a lot more than a plane
ticket.
This is Aijazuddin’s riotous, intelligent memoir of searching for his
place between two worlds while navigating a minefield of expectations,
prejudice and self-doubt. In Manboobs, Aijazuddin confidently announces
himself as a sharp new voice in humour with his moving, wickedly funny
search for love and the bravery required to be yourself.
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