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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show Nanette. Now they take us through the defining moments in their life and their powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost.
Don’t miss Hannah Gadsby’s Something Special, coming to Netflix on May 9!
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Hannah Gadsby takes you to her youth and childhood Tasmania, where gay rights arrived very late. Her timely memoir highlights the personal price to be paid in lifecourse effects of a society hostile to LGBTIQ people. Gadsby links her personal journey as a neurodivergent and extremely succesful standup artist with current events, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always honest.
Have you seen Nanette? If not, go watch it right now. I’ll wait.
Okay. Now that you’ve seen Gadsby’s Netflix special, you either get it or you don’t (and you either love Gadsby or you don’t). Gadsby, who grew up queer in a small, intolerant community, and who was later diagnosed with ADHD and ASD, recounts some of her formative experiences in order to construct a portrait of an artist in the 21st century.
Ten Steps to Nanette is at turns painful, hilarious, depressing, and inspiring. And: there are footnotes! (I used footnotes too in one of my novels…
From Sara's list on for those of us in the neurodiverse universe.
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