{"product_id":"ladyparts-a-memoir-9781984855473","title":"Ladyparts: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eA frank, witty, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her body falls apart--from the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"brilliant mind\" (Michaela Coel, creator of \u003ci\u003eI May Destroy You\u003c\/i\u003e) behind\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShutterbabe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The most laugh-out-loud story of resilience you'll ever read and an essential road map for the importance of narrative as a tool of healing.\"--Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMaybe You Should Talk to Someone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI'm crawling around on the bathroom floor, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not a metaphor. They are actual pieces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTwenty years after her iconic memoir \u003ci\u003eShutterbabe, \u003c\/i\u003e Deborah Copaken is at her darkly comedic nadir: battered, broke, divorcing, dissected, and dying--literally--on sexism's battlefield as she scoops up what she believes to be her internal organs into a glass container before heading off to the hospital . . . in an UberPool. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLadyparts\u003c\/i\u003e is her irreverent inventory of both the female body and the body politic of womanhood in America, the story of one woman brought to her knees by the one-two-twelve punch of divorce, solo motherhood, healthcare Frogger, unaffordable childcare, shady landlords, her father's death, college tuitions, sexual harassment, corporate indifference, ageism, sexism, and plain old bad luck. Plus seven serious illnesses, one atop the other, which provide the book's narrative skeleton: vagina, uterus, breast, heart, cervix, brain, and lungs. She bounces back from each bum body part, finds workarounds for every setback--she transforms her home into a commune to pay rent; sells her soul for health insurance; turns FBI informant when her sexual harasser is nominated to the White House--but in her slippery struggle to survive a steep plunge off the middle-class ladder, she is suddenly awoken to what it means to have no safety net. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSide-splittingly funny one minute, a freak horror show the next, quintessentially American, \u003ci\u003eLadyparts\u003c\/i\u003e is an era-defining memoir for our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781984855473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2021 pg. 67\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2021 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2021 pg. 79\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Deborah Copaken","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40423549501621,"sku":"9781984855473","price":25.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_fd9be270-cefd-4ae5-9d7b-86791032c590.jpg?v=1625577572","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ladyparts-a-memoir-9781984855473","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}