Misfits: A Personal Manifesto.The book is set to focus on topics Coel explored in her MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh Festival in 2018.The writer and I May Destroy You creator defines the word “misfit” as she sees it in her lecture.“The term misfits takes on dual notions; a misfit is one who looks at life differently,” Coel begins. “Many however, are made into misfits because life looks at them differently; the UK’s black, Asian, and ginger communities for example.“The term can be cross-generational and crosses concepts of gender or culture, simply by a desire for transparency, a desire to see another’s point of view.
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