The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir--wise, complex, smart, funny--that is different from anything we've read. One of Glamour's "Best Books to Read in 2017" * One of Entertainment Weekly's "Most Anticipated Books for 2017" and "Best Books to Read in May" * One of People Magazine's "22 Super-Revealing Celeb Memoirs to Read Right Now" * One of Hollywood Reporter's "27 Books to Watch For in 2017" * One of Elite Daily's "5 Celebs About to Light up the Red Carpet and Release Books in 2017" * One of Bustle's "20 Best Non-Fiction Books Coming in May 2017" * One of HelloGiggles' "7 Celebrity Memoirs We Can't Wait to Read This Year" * One of Nylon's "50 Books We Can't Wait To Read In 2017" * One of Bustle's "9 Books By Celebrity Women Being Released in 2017 To Add To Your TBR" * One of Cosmopolitan's "10 Books You Need to Read in 2017" 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.