{"product_id":"9780544786769","title":"This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Oscar-nominated \u003ci\u003ePrecious \u003c\/i\u003estar and \u003ci\u003eEmpire \u003c\/i\u003eactress delivers a much-awaited memoir—wise, complex, smart, funny—a version of the American experience different from anything we’ve read\u003c\/b\u003e Gabourey 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 \u003ci\u003ePrecious.\u003c\/i\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThis is Just My Face\u003c\/i\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.”  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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, \u003ci\u003eThis Is Just My Face\u003c\/i\u003e takes its place and fills a void on the shelf of writers from Mindy Kaling to David Sedaris to Lena Dunham.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014289768688,"sku":"9780544786769","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544786769_p0.jpg?v=1763712537","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544786769","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}