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The author writes of what it takes to move through the world in a disabled body, and reminds us of all we take for granted. Learn more Chlo Cooper Jones (Author of Easy Beauty) Chlo Cooper Jones. , Holds Up A Mirror to the Able-Bodied World. Easy Beauty: A Memoir, published in April by Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster. 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. Chlo Cooper Jones’s Debut Memoir, Easy Beauty. 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. So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. GenresMemoirNonfictionDisabilityBiographyFeminismBiography MemoirEssays. I am in a bar in Brooklyn listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether or not my life was worth living. The title of Chloé Cooper Jones’s first book EASY BEAUTY (288 pp. 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. With its emotional depth, its prodigious, spiky intelligence, its passion and humor, Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes.

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