Unicorn: the Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen

Author(s): Amrou Al-Kadhi

Biography, Memoir & Autobiography

From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself. My name is Amrou Al-Kadhi – by day. By night, I am Glamrou, an empowered, fearless and acerbic drag queen who wears seven-inch heels and says the things that nobody else dares to. Growing up in a strict Iraqi Muslim household, it didn’t take long for me to realise I was different. When I was ten years old, I announced to my family that I was in love with Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. The resultant fallout might best be described as something like the Iraqi version of Jerry Springer: The Opera. And that was just the beginning. This is the story of how I got from there to here: about my teenage obsession with marine biology, and how fluid aquatic life helped me understand my non-binary gender identity; about my two-year scholarship at Eton college, during which I wondered if I could forge a new identity as a British aristocrat (spoiler alert: it didn’t work); about discovering the transformative powers of drag while at university (and how I very nearly lost my mind after I left); and about how, after years of rage towards it, I finally began to understand Islam in a new, queer way. Most of all, this is a book about my mother. It’s the journey of how we lost and found each other, about forgiveness, understanding, hope – and the life-long search for belonging.

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General Fields

  • : 9780008306076
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Australia
  • : Fourth Estate
  • : 0.38
  • : September 2019
  • : 2.4 Centimeters X 15.3 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters
  • : October 2019
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Amrou Al-Kadhi
  • : Paperback
  • : 1910
  • : 792.028092
  • : 272