NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"An inspiring story that manages to be painful, honest, shocking,
bawdy and hilarious." --The New York Times Book Review
From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip,
Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting,
hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal
essays, as fearless as the author herself.
Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los
Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. If she could
do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the
other foster kids she lived with wouldn't beat her up, and she might
even get a boyfriend. Or at least she could make enough money--as the
paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman--to get her hair
and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend.
None of that worked (and she's still single), but it allowed Tiffany to
imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a
living: comedy.
Tiffany can't avoid being funny--it's just who she is, whether she's
plotting shocking, jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning
how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person's
mind-set. Finally poised to become a household name, she recounts with
heart and humor how she came from nothing and nowhere to achieve her
dreams by owning, sharing, and using her pain to heal others.
By turns hilarious, filthy, and brutally honest, The Last Black
Unicorn shows the world who Tiffany Haddish really is--humble,
grateful, down-to-earth, and funny as hell. And now, she's ready to
inspire others through the power of laughter.
