Manboobs: A very queer memoir
English
By (author): Komail Aijazuddin
Discover the must-read, coming-of-age queer memoir about learning how to love yourself in a world that doesnt 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 Jacket
Im just a man, standing in front of a salad, asking it to be a cake.
What do you do when youre too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America and youre ashamed of your body everywhere?
Even as a young child in Lahore, Komail Aijazuddin knew he was different. Other boys didnt pirouette off their desks, get bullied for their manboobs or spontaneously burst into songs from The Little Mermaid. Other boys didnt 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 Aijazuddins 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.