{"product_id":"9781328915801","title":"This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare","description":"\u003cp\u003e“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   In \u003ci\u003eThis Is Just My Face,\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePrecious.\u003c\/i\u003e             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” —\u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e). Irreverent, hilarious, and untraditional, \u003ci\u003eThis Is Just My Face\u003c\/i\u003e will resonate with anyone who has ever felt different, and with anyone who has ever felt inspired to make a dream come true. “This memoir [is] a book you will want to give your daughter.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e “Sidibe’s hilarious Twitter account is no fluke—the \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e actress’s memoir about growing up in New York City and finding unexpected fame in Hollywood is sharp, witty, and wonderfully substantive.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047111278832,"sku":"9781328915801","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781328915801_p0.jpg?v=1763708192","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781328915801","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}