Instead, she uses her skills, bravery, and kindness to help others.Ī lovely tale of uniqueness, acceptance, and friendship. It’s not her physical features used to the advantage of others. One aspect I especially enjoyed is that it is Layla’s knowledge and experience that saves the day at the end.
While most of the characters are animals, the humanoid characters have a variety of skin tones, which is a nice change from traditional white-centric fantasies. Though there’s plenty of magic, it’s also easy to relate to as Layla deals with new experiences, fitting in, and bullying.Ĭute illustrations. A woman who was able to achieve her dreams by reveling in her pain and awkwardness, showing the world who she really is, and inspiring others through the power of laughter.A sweet, modern twist on Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, featuring a unicorn from the woods who attends school with other unicorns for the first time.įeaturing a delightful cast of magical friends, including a fatherly troll and supportive goblin, fairy, cat, and minotaur, Haddish presents an engaging world.
But The Last Black Unicorn is so much more than a side-splittingly hilarious collection of essays - it's a memoir of the struggles of one woman who came from nothing and nowhere. Tiffany can't avoid being funny: It's just who she is. She still cleans the toilet the way she was shown by a foster mom who worked as a maid, and she still rolls her joints the way one of her foster dads taught her. She's humble, grateful, down to earth, and funny as hell. Tiffany faced the 'routine' hindrances of climbing the entertainment business ladder - but had the added obstacles of sex, race, and class in her way. In Haddish’s picture-book debut, co-written by Nolen, a unicorn has a rough start trying to fit in at school. After a multitude of jobs, she finally realized that she had talent in an area she never would have suspected: comedy. by Tiffany Haddish & Jerdine Nolen illustrated by Jessica Gibson RELEASE DATE: May 10, 2022. As an illiterate ninth grader, Tiffany did everything she could to survive. Tiffany never fit in anywhere: not in the households she rotated through in the foster care system and certainly not at the nearly all white high school she had to ride the bus an hour to attend. Her mother wound up with a debilitating brain injury after surviving a car accident. Tiffany Haddish grew up in one of the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles. From stand-up comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish comes The Last Black Unicorn, a hilarious, edgy, and heart-wrenching collection of autobiographical essays that will leave you laughing through tears.
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