Manboobs

Discover the must-read, coming-of-age queer memoir about learning how to love yourself in a world that doesn t want you to. A beautiful celebration of being different. TOM ALLEN An important story, told with a sharp wit and disarming humour MOHSIN ZAIDI author of A Dutiful Boy Brilliant, spectacularly witty and genuinely moving. I loved it. MATTHEW TODD, author of Straight JacketI m just a man, standing in front of a salad, asking it to be a cake.What do you do when you re too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America and you re ashamed of your body everywhere?Even as a young child in Lahore, Komail Aijazuddin knew he was different. Other boys didn t pirouette off their desks, get bullied for their manboobs or spontaneously burst into songs from The Little Mermaid. Other boys didn t play together like that.Starved of a crucial part of himself, he ate. And ate. Before long, his own body became another burden to carry everywhere and to hide. Komail began to believe his only chance at a happy, meaningful life would be found elsewhere: in America, land of the free, home of the gays. But he would soon learn that finding happiness takes a lot more than a plane ticket.This is Aijazuddin s riotous, intelligent memoir of searching for his place between two worlds while navigating a minefield of expectations, prejudice and self-doubt. In Manboobs, Aijazuddin confidently announces himself as a sharp new voice in humour with his moving, wickedly funny search for love and the bravery required to be yourself.