The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

Tiffany can't avoid being funny: It's just who she is. She still cleans the toilet the way she was shown by a foster mom who worked as a maid, and she still rolls her joints the way one of her foster dads taught her. She's humble, grateful, down to earth, and funny as hell.

Tiffany faced the 'routine' hindrances of climbing the entertainment business ladder - but had the added obstacles of sex, race, and class in her way. After a multitude of jobs, she finally realized that she had talent in an area she never would have suspected: comedy. As an illiterate ninth grader, Tiffany did everything she could to survive. Tiffany never fit in anywhere: not in the households she rotated through in the foster care system and certainly not at the nearly all white high school she had to ride the bus an hour to attend. Her mother wound up with a debilitating brain injury after surviving a car accident.

Tiffany Haddish grew up in one of the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles. And now, she’s ready to inspire others through the power of laughter.From stand-up comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish comes The Last Black Unicorn, a hilarious, edgy, and heart-wrenching collection of autobiographical essays that will leave you laughing through tears. 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.īy 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!įrom 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.

Biography & Autobiography, Essays, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish