She spends some of her teenage years as an “energy producer” at bar mitzvahs. There is joy and hilarity here too, narrated in a raucous style reminiscent of her stand-up routines. “Maybe it was just that I didn’t know any other way to be loved,” she says, with a rawness as devastating as it is affecting. At times, you can hear the hurt thrumming in her voice as she recounts missing the mother she had before the car accident or explaining why she stayed so long with an abusive husband. Haddish does not sugarcoat these experiences, and the audiobook is sometimes painful to listen to - not only for what she says, but for the way she says it. Then, as an adult, she suffers domestic abuse at the hands of her now ex-husband. Haddish spends time in the foster care system, where an older man abuses her. Afterward she is never the same, becoming emotionally abusive and physically violent - in one particularly gut-wrenching scene, she beats her daughter in a Walmart parking lot. When Haddish is only 8, her mother suffers a severe brain injury in a car crash. In the audiobook of “The Last Black Unicorn,” Haddish narrates her journey from growing up poor in South Central Los Angeles, to touring on the comedy circuit, to becoming the breakout star of last year’s “Girls Trip.” What you probably don’t know is that she has an indomitable spirit that helped her to survive a difficult, often harrowing past. Simon & Schuster Audio.ĮVERY DAY I’M HUSTLING By Vivica A. THE LAST BLACK UNICORN By Tiffany Haddish Read by the author 6 Hours, 29 Minutes.
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