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We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True - Gabrielle Union
We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True
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In the spirit of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman.One month before the release of the highly anticipated film The... show more
In the spirit of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, a powerful collection of essays about gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood, and what it means to be a modern woman.One month before the release of the highly anticipated film The Birth of a Nation, actress Gabrielle Union shook the world with a vulnerable and impassioned editorial in which she urged our society to have compassion for victims of sexual violence. In the wake of rape allegations made against director and actor Nate Parker, Union—a forty-four-year-old actress who launched her career with roles in iconic ’90s movies—instantly became the insightful, outspoken actress that Hollywood has been desperately awaiting. With honesty and heartbreaking wisdom, she revealed her own trauma as a victim of sexual assault: "It is for you that I am speaking. This is real. We are real." In this moving collection of thought provoking essays infused with her unique wisdom and deep humor, Union uses that same fearlessness to tell astonishingly personal and true stories about power, color, gender, feminism, and fame. Union tackles a range of experiences, including bullying, beauty standards, and competition between women in Hollywood, growing up in white California suburbia and then spending summers with her black relatives in Nebraska, coping with crushes, puberty, and the divorce of her parents. Genuine and perceptive, Union bravely lays herself bare, uncovering a complex and courageous life of self-doubt and self-discovery with incredible poise and brutal honesty. Throughout, she compels us to be ethical and empathetic, and reminds us of the importance of confidence, self-awareness, and the power of sharing truth, laughter, and support.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780062693983 (0062693980)
ASIN: 0062693980
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
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bookjunkie57
bookjunkie57 rated it
4.0 We’re Going to Need More Wine
I Picked Up This Book Because: Curiosity The Story: I’m struggling to sum up this book. I can say the title is true, I needed wine. Not because there were bad stories but because some of the stories were so intense. Gabrielle was charming, amusing and at time brutally honest. I found very much in ...
"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it
3.0 We're Going to Need More Wine - Uneven but Still Good
I think I would like to be friends with Gabrielle Union, though I doubt she has the time. I'll be honest, as not too much of a social media or celebrity person, I wasn't entirely sure who she even was, but then I realized I'd seen her speeches on YouTube, and I had always liked what she had to say...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it
5.0
I really wish that Lena Dunham's name would stop being dropped when talking about feminist books. I haven't read Dunham's book because everytime she opens her mouth, she shows me that she isn't a feminist. Why she is consider the standard I have no friggin idea. If you want a book that is really b...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it
5.0 Great Memoir by Union
I recall this came out last year. A friend of mine went to a book signing by Gabrielle Union and was raving over this book. I was hesitant to read cause I'm heard on memoirs and always feel guilty when I don't like them. Cause if you don't like the memoir, you don't like the person. If it's ghostwri...
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