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100 1  Cooper Jones, Chloé,|d1983-|eauthor. 
245 10 Easy beauty :|ba memoir /|cChloé Cooper Jones. 
250    Large print edition. 
263    2208 
264  1 Waterville, Maine :|bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, a 
       Cengage Company,|c2022. 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    445 pages (large print) ;|c22 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
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490 1  Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir 
520    "From Chloé Cooper Jones--Pulitzer Prize finalist, 
       philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant 
       recipient--a groundbreaking memoir about disability, 
       motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of
       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 Chloé 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 Beyoncé 
       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. 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"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Cooper Jones, Chloé,|d1983- 
650  0 Women with disabilities|vBiography. 
650  0 Spinal cord|xAbnormalities|xPatients|vBiography. 
650  0 Abnormalities, Human. 
650  0 Body image. 
650  0 Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) 
650  0 Large type books. 
650  7 Abnormalities, Human.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00794451 
650  7 Body image.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00835344 
650  7 Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00922652 
650  7 Spinal cord|xAbnormalities|xPatients.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01129855 
650  7 Women with disabilities.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01178680 
655  7 Biographies.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919896 
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830  0 Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs. 
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