title: Memoirs of a GayShe: My journey into self-realization
author:  Garland G Guidry 
description: Hello readers, my name is Garland Guidry. I have always been very articulate and a very good story teller. However, I've never considered myself a writer until now. I was born in Slidell, Louisiana and I am the fourth child out of five siblings. My father was a Baptist minister but he, nor my mother ever had a holier than thou attitude. I am very grateful for that because they allowed me to be myself. After finishing High School, about two years later I went to Cosmetology School and completed my certification in 1996. It has been my eighteen year journey in the beauty business and telling my customers about my life experiences and lessons that inspired me to write my first book called, Memoirs of a GayShe. I wanted to convey to the world that our sexual preference or sexual identity is a small part of who we are. Even calling myself a writer is limiting because I am capable of so many things. However, we live in a society where labels are necessary, but it doesn't have to limit or define us. I have never done anything in the expected manner and I don't care to either. Even for the category I chose to put my book under 'Non-Classifiable'. I can't be defined and neither can my book. But I can guarantee that if you have an open mind- when you discover this book and dare to read it, you will learn something that will change your life.
zlib_text: ABOUT THE BOOK
  At the age of nine, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up
  set at a Pontin’s holiday camp talent competition, smashing the other
  competitor, a young girl playing the kazoo.
  The gig went so well that Romesh retired his comic genius for twenty-two
  years, hiding behind the guise of a maths teacher, before finally revealing
  himself again (no, not like that) at the tender age of thirty-one. In 2010
  Romesh staged his epic comeback gig to an almost silent room, and has
  since gone on to earn his place as the most in-demand overweight vegan Sri
  Lankan comedian in Britain.
  Now, for the first time, he tells the full story of how he got here. From the
  delights of Sri Lankan hospitality to his struggles as a child, teacher and
  now parent, to his adolescent flirtation with a rap career and his attempts to
  make it in comedy, Straight Outta Crawley is Romesh’s hilarious and
  irreverent autobiography
  
  Contents
  Cover
  About the Book
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Live from Bedford Stuy