{"product_id":"9781529929386","title":"Manboobs : A very queer memoir by Komail Aijazuddin","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44581734613170,"sku":"9781529929386","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529929386.jpg?v=1737626294","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781529929386","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}