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02741aam a22002895i 4500 001 BC5ABA20880F11EDB865071A4AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221230010046 008 221220s2023 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2022952056 020 $a 1982151994 020 $a 9781982151997 020 $a 1982152001 020 $a 9781982152000 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Cooper Jones, ChloeÌ, $e author. 245 10 $a Easy beauty / $c ChloeÌ Cooper Jones. 263 $a 2304 264 1 $a New York : $b Avid Reader Press, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "From ChloeÌ Cooper Jones-Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient-an "exquisite" (Oprah Daily) and groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. "I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living." So begins ChloeÌ 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. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a BeyonceÌ 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. "Bold, honest, and superbly well-written" (Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name) Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes"-- $c Provided by publisher. 655 $a Biography 941 $a 2 952 $l AWPD207 $d 20230209015856.0 952 $l TRPE062 $d 20221230010750.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BC5ABA20880F11EDB865071A4AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search