The hilarious and piercing memoir about growing up gay in a not-so-gay world.
-An important story, told with a sharp wit and disarming humour- MOHSIN ZAIDI
-Vastly entertaining and wickedly funny- GREG MARSHALL
I-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.
Starved of a
