Tiffany can’t avoid being funny-it’s just who she is, whether she’s plotting shocking, jaw-dropping revenge on an ex-boyfriend or learning how to handle her newfound fame despite still having a broke person’s mind-set. None of that worked (and she’s still single), but it allowed Tiffany to imagine a place for herself where she could do something she loved for a living: comedy. Or at least she could make enough money-as the paid school mascot and in-demand Bar Mitzvah hype woman-to get her hair and nails done, so then she might get a boyfriend. If she could do that, then her classmates would let her copy their homework, the other foster kids she lived with wouldn’t beat her up, and she might even get a boyfriend. Growing up in one of the poorest neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles, Tiffany learned to survive by making people laugh. Even though this can be a hard concept at times for people young and older to take in, it is a wonderful moral that shows the power of valuing oneself and one’s abilities.Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!įrom stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) personal essays, as fearless as the author herself. Her self-esteem grows stronger, and she learns that her worth can be found within, not based on what others think of her. She can help them find their way through the Fiddle Dee Deep Forest since that’s where she lives. Even if she’s different doesn’t mean she’s not special.īefore long, Layla learns that she has something to offer that none of the other unicorns at school can. Everyone has to suffer through something now and again. She doesn’t know how to play their games or talk to them, and she ends up sitting alone at lunch and feeling out of place.Įven though she doesn’t want to go back to school, her troll friend convinces her it’s the right thing to do.
Instead, all of the other unicorns are a variety of brighter colors. The problem is that the other unicorns don’t treat her in a way that makes her feel accepted. She loves her life and is excited to start her first day of school at Unicornia, a school just for unicorns. Layla is a beautiful black unicorn who lives in the woods. Layla, the Last Black Unicorn’ by Tiffany Haddish, co-written by Jerdine Nolen, and illustrated by Jessica Gibson, is an endearing story about the power of being true to oneself and realizing one’s own worth despite any hardships that may get in the way of achieving one’s own sense of peace.
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