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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 w