Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones5/21/2023 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.įrom Roman sculptures to a Beyoncé 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. 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. EASY BEAUTY is a genre- and paradigm-bending memoir in which Pulitzer Prize finalist Chlo Cooper Jones embarks on a journey to reclaim her space in the world, using disability, motherhood and a lifelong search for beauty as her throughlines. So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. I am in a bar in Brooklyn listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether or not my life was worth living. 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 SMILE Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. Jones learned early on to factor 'pain calculations' into every plan, every situation. ‘GRACEFUL AND SOUL-BARING’ MELANIE REID, THE TIMES So begins Chloé Cooper Joness bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. ‘BOLD, HONEST AND SUPERBLY WELL-WRITTEN’ ANDRÉ ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
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