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  • Life as a Unicorn

  • A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between
  • By: Amrou Al-Kadhi
  • Narrated by: Amrou Al-Kadhi
  • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Life as a Unicorn

By: Amrou Al-Kadhi
Narrated by: Amrou Al-Kadhi
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Publisher's summary

A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself

WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020

WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD

Amrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first sight.

Amrou’s parents weren’t so happy…

From that moment on, Amrou began searching in all the wrong places for ways to make their divided self whole again.

Life as a Unicorn is a hilarious yet devastating story of a search for belonging, following the painful and surprising process of transforming from a god-fearing Muslim boy to a queer drag queen, strutting the stage in seven-inch heels and saying the things nobody else dares to ….

©2019 Amrou Al-Kadhi (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Critic reviews

"It should be [shared] far and wide." (Ian McKellen)

"This book is as rare, fabulous and beautiful as the creature it is named for. A masterpiece of psychology, a major study of Islam and a definitive study of drag, it made me cry, it made me rage and it made me hoot. Full of anger, insight and philosophy, along with some cracking great gags, this is a magnificent and essential document of the 21st century. It moved my heart and soul." (Russell T. Davies)

"A heartbreaking, healing book. it will make you better." (Simon Amstell)

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