Manboobs A very queer memoir

<p><b>The hilarious and piercing memoir about growing up gay in a not-so-gay world.</b><br><br>‘A beautiful celebration of being different.’ <b>TOM ALLEN</b><br><br>‘An important story, told with a sharp wit and disarming humour<b>’ MOHSIN ZAIDI </b>author of <i>A Dutiful Boy</i><br><br>‘Brilliant, spectacularly witty and genuinely moving. I loved it.’ <b>MATTHEW TODD</b>, author of <i>Straight Jacket</i><br><br><b><i>I’m just a man, standing in front of a salad, asking it to be a cake.</i><br><br>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?<br><br>How can you find happiness despite years of humiliation, fear and a legion of Brooklyn hipsters who know you only as a queer from Whereveristan?<br><br>How do you summon the courage to be yourself no matter where you are?</b><br><br>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 <i>The Little Mermaid</i>. Other boys didn’t play together like <i>that</i>.<br><br>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.<br><br>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 <i>Manboobs</i>, 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.</p>