Easy Beauty'What a gift . . . Easy Beauty has the rigor and precision of Joan Didion and Maggie Nelson and a forthright humor and naked truth all of its own' Sarah Ruhl, author of SmileI am in a bar in Brooklyn listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether or not my life was worth living.So begins Chloe Cooper Jones's bold account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis, she must contend not only with her own physical pain, but the emotional discomfort of others.It is only when she unexpectedly becomes a mother that she confronts the demand to live life fully, propelling her on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she'd been denied, and denied herself.From Roman sculptures to a Beyonce concert, from a tennis tournament to the Cambodian Killing Fields, Jones interrogates the myths of beauty with spiky intelligence, aesthetic philosophy, love and humor, inviting us to find a new way of seeing. |
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User Review - Unreachableshelf - LibraryThingA thoughtful meditation, not only on disability, motherhood, and travel, as the flap says, but on the question of whether or not a person can avoid being identified by others at all. Read full review
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User Review - Publishers WeeklyJones, a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing, takes aim at beauty standards in her dazzling debut. Born with a rare congenital condition that left her with a curved spine and “mismatched ... Read full review
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| Title | Easy Beauty |
| Author | Chloe Cooper Jones |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group Limited, 2022 |
| ISBN | 0349013810, 9780349013817 |
| Length | 288 pages |
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