![]() ![]() As a teen barely able to read but with a powerful memory, Haddish ends up in AP classes an attempt to impress a boy ends up with her first winning a Shakespeare monologue competition and Bar Mitzvah entertainment when her joking goes awry in class, she is given the choice between therapy and comedy camp. Like a fairy tale heroine, Haddish is able to spin straw (or dung) into gold. Haddish’s description of a life episode as a “weird fairy-tale horror story” seems to apply to her experiences generally (45). She is desperate to transform the attention she gets from her classmates from derision to awe, to go from being Dirty Ass Unicorn to the Last Black Unicorn (4). The unicorn is in the memoir’s opening anecdote, where young Tiffany is cursed with a spiky wart on her forehead. On the other hand, maybe it is, as the title suggests, all about unicorns. This funny and bracing memoir has very little to do with unicorns on a literal level. ![]()
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