{"product_id":"easy-beauty-a-memoir-9781982151997","title":"Easy Beauty: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Chloé Cooper Jones--Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient--a groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo begins Chloé\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eCooper 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyoncé 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith its emotional depth, its prodigious, spiky intelligence, its passion and humor, \u003ci\u003eEasy Beauty \u003c\/i\u003eis the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Avid Reader Press \/ Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982151997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2021 pg. 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chlo\u0026#233; Cooper Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41596184559797,"sku":"9781982151997","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bbf14967-cbe3-41f0-94b9-6472d9dbba35.jpg?v=1644334171","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/easy-beauty-a-memoir-9781982151997","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}