![]() Her debut is a game-changing gift to readers. Jones moves in spaces previously denied to her (such as “find yourself” travel), reflects on key life moments and her embodied life, and engages her study of philosophy. She shares her ultimate answer-yes-in superlative writing, rendering complex emotion and unparalleled insight in skillfully precise language. Three months after this night, alone in Italy, Jones looks at Bernini sculptures as the dinner and her son’s existence catalyze to a profound, impressive, and wiser-than-wise contemplation of the way Jones is viewed by others, her own collusion in those views, and whether any of this can be shifted. ![]() A while later, at a stunning dinner, Jones listens to two fellow students in her philosophy PhD program discuss if fetal bodies like her own should be aborted. Review 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. ![]() Born without the bone that connects the spine to the pelvis, Jones lives with physical pain and social pain, against which she self-protects by mentally retreating into “the neutral room.” After a lifetime of hearing motherhood is a nonoption for a body deemed disabled, Jones becomes pregnant with and welcomes her son Wolfgang. Easy Beauty: A Memoir ISBN 9781982151997 1982151994 by Cooper Jones, Chloé - buy, sell or rent this book for the best price. ![]() Journalist Jones’ soul-stretching, breathtaking existential memoir chronicles her reclaiming of body, mind, and self. ![]()
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