From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themself My name is Amrou Al-Kadhi - by day. By night, I am Glamrou, an empowered, fearless and acerbic drag queen who wears seven-inch heels and says the things that nobody else dares to. Growing up in a strict Iraqi Muslim household, it didn't take long for me to realise I was different. When I was ten years old, I announced to my family that I was in love with Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. The resultant fallout might best be described as something like the Iraqi version of Jerry Springer: The Opera. And that was just the beginning. This is the story of how I got from there to here: about my teenage obsession with marine biology, and how fluid aquatic life helped me understand my non-binary gender identity; about my two-year scholarship at Eton college, during which I wondered if I could forge a new identity as a British aristocrat (spoiler alert: it didn't work); about discovering the transformative powers of drag while at university (and how I very nearly lost my mind after I left); and about how, after years of rage towards it, I finally began to understand Islam in a new, queer way. Most of all, this is a book about my mother.

It's the journey of how we lost and found each other, about forgiveness, understanding, hope - and the life-long search for belonging. Gold title * A story about identity, gender, prejudice and the search for belonging: this is the ultimate story for our times * Both wrenchingly moving and very funny * For fans of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman, Grayson Perry's The Descent of Man, Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive and Juno Dawson's The Gender Games * A love letter from a son to a mother - with a heartwarming message of hope and forgiveness Competition: Diary of a Drag Queen, Queer Intentions, Drag The Complete Story, Guru, Naturally Tan, Over the Top, Me Elton John, We Have Always Been Here, Opposite of Loneliness. Crystal Rasmussen, Rupaul, Bianca Del Rio, Michelle Visage, Amelia Abraham, Trixie Matell, Katya, Tan France, Jonathan Van Ness.