Manboobs

The hilarious and piercing memoir about growing up gay in a not-so-gay world. ‘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?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?How do you summon the courage to be yourself no matter where you are?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.