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Maybe someday

32

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

29/100

Critics

36/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

RuPaul

Publisher:

Dey Street Books

Date:

March 5, 2024

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance.

What The Reviewers Say

Becca Rothfeld,
The Washington Post
His most earnest foray into self-fashioning yet.
Saeed Jones,
The New York Times Book Review
The meanings laid bare in the text contradict RuPaul’s narration again and again. What’s revealed is a striver high on his own supply who tries to spin his story as empathetic wisdom draped in Instagram-ready captions.
Kathryn Bromwich,
The Guardian (UK)
A memoir that is by turns shocking, poignant, fantastically egotistical and often wise.
Annie Bostrom,
Booklist
RuPaul shares black-and-white photos between chapters and relates scenes boldly colored by music, fashion, and emotion. Touching also on belonging, love, and sobriety, this vibrant and multifaceted celebrity memoir will have readers rapt..