Easy Beauty

On Seeing and Being Seen

By: Chloe Cooper Jones

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Hardcover | 7 April 2022 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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3.1 x 14.4 x 22.3

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'GORGEOUS, VIVIDLY ALIVE' NEW YORK TIMES

'BOLD, HONEST AND SUPERBLY WELL-WRITTEN' ANDRE ACIMAN, AUTHOR OF CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

'GRACEFUL AND SOUL-BARING' MELANIE REID, THE TIMES
'WHAT A GIFT . . . 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

I am in a bar in Brooklyn listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether or not my life was worth living.

So begins Chloe Cooper Jones's bold account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. 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.

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.

From Roman sculptures to a Beyonce 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.

Industry Reviews

Easy Beauty is bold, honest, and superbly well-written. Chloe Cooper Jones is ruthless in probing our weakest and darkest areas, and does so with grace, humor, and ultimately, with something one seldom finds: kindness and humanity. - Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name

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. - Sarah Ruhl, author of Smile

Perceptive, stylish, and darkly funny, Easy Beauty is an act of grace, and a reckoning. Chloe Cooper Jones is a remarkable writer - I would follow her mind anywhere. - Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley

A book that everyone will be talking about. - Lit Hub

Exquisite. - O Magazine

Dazzling. - Starred Publishers Weekly

Utterly remarkable. I was spellbound by the style, the ideas, the vulnerability, the talent. - Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State

Jones is a magnificent guide, fiercely sharp and fiercely human . . . The questions she raises will resound in your head for a long time to come. - Lulu Fisher, author of Why Fish Don't Exist

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