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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary WorkNamed a Best Book of the Year by The RootChosen by Emma Straub as a Best New Celebrity Memoir"A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced." - Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn 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.
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Gabrielle Union is the author of We're Going to Need More Wine, a New York Times bestseller, and Welcome to the Party, her first book for children. She's also an actress, activist, producer, and New York and Company fashion designer. She currently stars and produces the Spectrum Original "L.A.'s Finest" alongside Jessica Alba. Union is an executive producer through her production shingle "I'll Have Another." Season two of the show will be out on Spectrum on June 8th. Union played the titular character in the critically acclaimed BET drama "Being Mary Jane" and starred in various movies such as THINK LIKE A MAN; THINK LIKE A MAN TOO; and BRING IT ON. Union's passion for acting is rivaled by her championing of causes near and dear to her heart such as breast health, combating sexual violence, and LGBTQ issues.
