{"product_id":"easy-beauty-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Easy Beauty: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChloé Cooper Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2022 * \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e's #1 Memoir of 2022 * A \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Chloé Cooper Jones--Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient--an \"exquisite\" (\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e) and groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen.\u003c\/b\u003e\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 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. \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\u003e\"Bold, honest, and superbly well-written\" (Andre Aciman, author of \u003ci\u003eCall Me By Your Name\u003c\/i\u003e) \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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChloé Cooper Jones is a philosophy professor and journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a contributing writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient, and, in 2020, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.35 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pulitzer Prize (2023)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44541874176102,"sku":"9781982152000","price":26.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/cUpCQlcrTVcvYTdHUDNWTzJMYTQ1QT09.webp?v=1770803515","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/easy-beauty-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}