Jones Chloe Cooper
Jones Chloe Cooper - Easy Beauty A Memoir - Paperback
Jones Chloe Cooper - Easy Beauty A Memoir - Paperback
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Description: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 * Vulture's #1 Memoir of 2022 * A Washington Post Los Angeles Times US a Today Time Buzz Feed Publishers Weekly Booklist and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * One of Oprah Daily's 33 Memoirs That Changed a Generation From Chlo Cooper Jones Pulitzer Prize finalist philosophy professor Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient an exquisite (Oprah Daily) and groundbreaking memoir about disability motherhood and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. I am in a bar in Brooklyn listening to two men my friends discuss whether my life is worth living. So begins Chlo Cooper Jones's bold revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor pain calculations into every plan every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance of being dismissed as less than. The way she has been seen or not seen has informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to the neutral room in her mind until it passed. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body) something in her shifts and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe reclaiming the spaces she d been denied and denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyonc concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh Jones weaves memory observation experience and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths. Bold honest and superbly well - written (Andre Aciman author of Call Me By Your Name) Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world and your place in it with new eyes.
Title: Easy Beauty A Memoir
Author(s): Jones Chloe Cooper
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982152000
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: Memoirs
Description: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 * Vulture's #1 Memoir of 2022 * A Washington Post Los Angeles Times US a Today Time Buzz Feed Publishers Weekly Booklist and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * One of Oprah Daily's 33 Memoirs That Changed a Generation From Chlo Cooper Jones Pulitzer Prize finalist philosophy professor Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient an exquisite (Oprah Daily) and groundbreaking memoir about disability motherhood and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. I am in a bar in Brooklyn listening to two men my friends discuss whether my life is worth living. So begins Chlo Cooper Jones's bold revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor pain calculations into every plan every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance of being dismissed as less than. The way she has been seen or not seen has informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to the neutral room in her mind until it passed. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body) something in her shifts and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe reclaiming the spaces she d been denied and denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyonc concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh Jones weaves memory observation experience and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths. Bold honest and superbly well - written (Andre Aciman author of Call Me By Your Name) Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world and your place in it with new eyes.
Title: Easy Beauty A Memoir
Author(s): Jones Chloe Cooper
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982152000
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: Memoirs
