We're Going to Need More Wine
By Gabrielle Union
- Release Date: 2017-10-17
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Root
Chosen 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 Letter
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.
Reviews
10/10
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5By ApexxxepAThis book is everything "we" needed to hear, laugh, and know. Protect Nickie at all costs. 20/10!Great read!
5By FittobetightlifeI totally read this in Gabrielle’s voice, in my head 😌 Great stories, which I’m sure all were not easy for her to share, but she did. Loved every moment of it. Can’t wait to read the next!Gab Bears Us Her Truth
5By Ashley Gm.Great read! A balance of intention and vulnerability.Obsessed
5By carolinarose23I love this book.Loved this book
5By KMH2021Loved it!Great read
5By jcrf21Loved the rawness of this book. Can’t wait to read the nextLoved this book
5By MarzaBracaGabrielle is so down-to-earth! She tells her real life stories that are funny, serious, sad at times and triumphant without sugar coating it. Also gives a real prospective in what black Americans are still enduring in this day and age. Helped me understand this reality I wouldn’t have ever known. Highly recommend this bookWe’re going to need more wine
4By Bethany PandaEffortlessly cool, self deprecating, honest and entertaining.A window into who she truly is.
5By 189546Gabrielle writes with an honest vulnerability that draws the reader into the story. We see her beyond her movie star role.