Cack-Handed

A Memoir

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<p><strong>The British<br>comedian of Nigerian<br>heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series <em>Bob Hearts Abishola </em>chronicles<br>her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and<br>humorous memoir.</strong></p><br><br><p>According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfill the dreams<br>of her grandmother Patience. The powerful first wife of a wealthy businessman,<br>Patience was poisoned by her jealous sister-wives and marked with a spot on her<br>neck. From birth, Gina carried a similar birthmark—a sign that she was her<br>grandmother’s chosen heir, and would fulfill Patience’s dreams. Gina would<br>learn to speak perfect English, live unfettered by men or children, work a<br>man’s job, and travel the world with a free spirit.</p><p>Is she the reincarnation of her grandmother? Maybe. Gina<br>isn’t ruling anything out. In <em>Cack-Handed</em>, she recalls her<br>intergenerational journey to success foretold by her grandmother and fulfilled<br>thousands of miles from home. This hilarious memoir tells the story of how from<br>growing up as a child of Nigerian immigrants in working class London, running<br>from skinheads, and her overprotective Mom, Gina went on to become the first<br>female engineer with the UK branch of Otis, the largest elevator company in the<br>world, where she went through a baptism of fire from her racist and sexist<br>co-workers. Not believing her life was difficult enough, she later left engineering<br>to become a stand up comic, appearing on numerous television shows and becoming<br>one of the top comedians in the UK, before giving it all up to move to the US,<br>a dream she’d had since she was six years old, watching American kids on<br>television, riding cool bicycles, and solving crimes.</p><br><br><p>A collection of eccentric, addictive, and uproarious stories<br>that combine family, race, gender, class, and country, <em>Cack-Handed </em>reveals<br>how Gina’s unconven

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780062961723

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

199 x 133 x 21 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

HarperCollins