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Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. The book follows Cooper Jones as she seeks a language to communicate her experience as a person with a disability. So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Easy Beauty is, in part, an exploration and response to such interactions. Beauty Beauty Feature Chlo Cooper Jones discusses her debut book Easy Beauty an eye-opening exploration of beauty from someone who exists on the periphery of our cultural beauty ideals 4April 2022 Text Ellen Atlanta I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living. ![]() 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 ‘GRACEFUL AND SOUL-BARING’ MELANIE REID, THE TIMES Cooper Jones says her husband, whom she loves dearly, has been laying the groundwork for years so she that she can fully be in her body and explore what that means in Easy Beauty. ‘BOLD, HONEST AND SUPERBLY WELL-WRITTEN’ ANDRÉ ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME ![]()
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