Try Me by Farah Damji

An art dealer, New York socialite, magazine founder, voice of British media, drug user and convict, ‘Try Me' give's an honest and detailed look at each of the roles Farah Damji's played in her well documented life. This book gives her own account, of her own life, as it happened for her- a rather different story to the archives of articles written recording it.

The story begins in Uganda through a child's perspective, immigrates to England where angst and loneliness are felt by the only non-white student in a private school, arrives in style in New York at the age of 18 to find drugs and sex part of everyday life, stands still in Rikers Prison after being convicted of fraud and restarts in England only to find itself on the same path of self destruction that has ensnared it so far.
 

‘Try Me' tells the story of lies, drugs, bad relationships and the truth about British Media though the auto biography of the former convict. It provides a key to the back stage of lives the 80's and 90's Manhattan elite and the uncontrollable spiral that erupts when money, sex and fame still leave them wanting more. A non sparing account of the actions that lead to a multicultural woman who looses her identity and gets caught up in a whirl wind that will leave you crying, gasping and wanting more.
 

Farah Damji is the first to break the taboo for Asian women by writing about sex, relationships and the British media in a candid and open way.  

The book is released on the 17^th July 2009 and will be donating some of the author's royalties to Raising Malawi, the charity founded by Madonna to help the country's 200,000 orphans.
 

Praise for the article:

"An exhilarating breath of fresh air: an Indian woman who has lived, loved, f**ked and f**ked-up in spectacular fashion and has the guts and talent to write about it with honesty and style. This book is a landmark, throwing down a gauntlet that Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai et al would never dare pick up."

Nirpal Dhariwal, author Tourism

"Casually shocking. Artfully bizarre. The most jaw-dropping memoir I've read since Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries"

Guy Adams, The Independent

by Charlotte Bishop