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Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between

by Amrou Al-Kadhi

A memoir of identity, family, and belonging

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Winner of the 2020 Polari First Book Prize

    Winner of the 2020 Polari First Book Prize.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A memoir of identity, family, and belonging

Amrou Al-Kadhi’s memoir traces a personal journey from recognizing their sexuality in childhood to becoming a queer drag queen. The account connects that transformation with family conflict, religious identity, and a search for belonging, framing the movement from shame toward pride as a process with complications along the way. Its subject matter brings together questions of selfhood and prejudice with the author’s experience of performance and public expression.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in memoirs about LGBTQ+ identity and self-discovery.
  • Readers exploring family conflict, religion, and prejudice through personal narrative.
  • Readers interested in drag and performance as part of a life story.

Themes

LGBTQ+ identityFamily conflictReligion and identityPrejudiceBelonging and self-acceptance

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Book overview

A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themself

WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD

Amrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first sight.

Amrou's parents weren't so happy...

From that moment on, Amrou began searching in all the wrong places for ways to make their divided self whole again.

Life as a Unicorn is a hilarious yet devastating story of a search for belonging, following the painful and surprising process of transforming from a god-fearing Muslim boy to a queer drag queen, strutting the stage in seven-inch heels and saying the things nobody else dares to ....

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