Born with sacral agenesis,a visible congenital disability that affects her stature and gait,Chloe Cooper Jones had always found solace in what she thought of as'the neutral room'- a dissociative space in her mind that offered her solace and self-protection,but also kept her isolated.
When she became pregnant (disproving her doctor,who had assumed it impossible),something necessary in her started to crack,forcing her to reckon with her defensive positionality to the world and the people in it. This prompted an odyssey across time and space as Chloe - while at museums,operas,concerts and sporting events,and in the presence of awe-inspiring nature - reconsidered the consciousness-shifting power of beauty.
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780349013800Number of pages: 288Weight: 240 gDimensions: 196 x 126 x 24 mm
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'Easy Beauty is bold,honest,and superbly well-written. Chloe Cooper Jones is ruthless in probing our weakest and darkest areas,and does so with grace,humor,and ultimately,with something one seldom finds: kindness and humanity.'- Andre Aciman
'Graceful,soul-baring'- The Times
'Gorgeous,vividly alive... in rejecting the dismissive gaze of others,Jones stands in the light of her own extremely able self'- New York Times
'What a gift of a book... Easy Beauty has the rigor and precision of Joan Didion and Maggie Nelson and a forthright humor and naked truth all its own.'- Sarah Ruhl
'Perceptive,stylish,and darkly funny,Easy Beauty is an act of grace,and a reckoning. Chloe Cooper Jones is a remarkable writer - I would follow her mind anywhere.'- Anna Wiener
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