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.
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.
Book Review:
I laughed every second of this audiobook! Even when Tiffany was discussing more serious issues she made them hilarious, but still managed to get the seriousness across. I loved how humble she remained throughout even though she had gained so much more "fame" whilst writing the novel.
Prior to the movie Girls Trip, which is incredible and hilarious, Tiffany was a struggling comedian. She made a living doing what she loved but she was nowhere near "famous" or "rich;" however, she kept doing what she loved because that is all she ever did. Although the book is shorter than the others I have recently listened to, she chronicles her life from her poverty-stricken childhood to the adolescence she spent caring for her recovering yet belligerent mother, to her experiences with social services, her first experiences as an entertainer when she began DJing bat mitzvahs, to finding her father and losing him, to very dramatic relationships, to pimping, to her first acting job, to meeting Will and Jada Smith during Girls Trip, and so on. She manages to give you the smallest of details and somehow make them seem to be more interesting than they really are. She picks on herself and also reminds the readers that if she could make it, so can they.
If you are looking for a hilarious memoir to get you out of your reading slump, this is the book for you.
Pages: 288 Rate: 5/5
Favorite Quote:
“You kill them with your success. Then they’ll have to kiss your motherfucking feet.”
