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Cack-handed, a memoir, Gina Yashere

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memoirs

Cack-handed

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Gina Yashere

a memoir

From birth, Yashere carried a birthmark on her neck: a sign to her family that she was her grandmother's chosen heir and would fulfill Patience's dreams of learning to speak perfect English, live unfettered by men or children, work a man's job, and travel the world with a free spirit. Growing up as a child of Nigerian immigrants in working-class London, she become the first female engineer with the UK branch of Otis, the largest elevator company in the world. Going through a baptism of fire from her racist and sexist coworkers, she eventually left engineering to become one of the top stand-up comics in the UK, before moving to the US. Here Yashere reveals how her unconventional upbringing became the foundation of her successful career. --, Adapted from containerThe African comedian and producer and writer of the CBS hit series I Heart Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir

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