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The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir—wise, complex, smart, funny—a version of the American experience different from anything we’ve read

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See Gabourey Sidibe on her
This is Just My Face tour!

NEW YORK, NY
Monday, May 1
Barnes & Noble Union Square
In Conversation with Another Round’s Tracy Clayton
33 E 17th Street
7pm
Details here

Friday, May 5
Brooklyn Voices Series at St. Joseph’s College
Co-Hosted with Greenlight Bookstore
In Conversation with Lena Dunham
245 Clinton Avenue
7:30pm
Details here

Saturday, May 6
PEN World Voices/Women of the World at the Apollo
253 W 125th Street
11am
Details here

WASHINGTON, DC
Wednesday, May 3
Sixth & I
In Conversation with NPR’s Linda Holmes
600 1 Street NW
7pm
Details here

PHILADELPHIA, PA
Thursday, May 4
Free Library of Philadelphia
In Conversation with Tracey Matisak
1901 Vine Street
7pm
Details here

LOS ANGELES, CA
Monday, May 8
Barnes & Noble at The Grove
In Conversation with Roxane Gay
189 The Grove Drive
7pm
Details here

CHICAGO, IL
Thursday, May 11
Chicago Humanities Festival
In Conversation with Britt Julious
2233 N Clark Street
7pm
Details here

Friday, May 12
Anderson’s Bookshop
Signing Only
123 W Jefferson Avenue
7pm
Details here

Behind the scenes at the cover shoot

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I can’t wait to read @GabbySidibe’s memoir, This Is Just My Face in May!


More about This is Just My Face

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 Precious. In This is Just My Face, 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.”

Sidibe’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, This Is Just My Face takes its place and fills a void on the shelf of writers from Mindy Kaling to David Sedaris to Lena Dunham.

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