Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIRAn exquisite exploration of disability, identity and the human capacity to do (and be) more than weve ever dreamed TimeGorgeously, vividly alive New York TimesChallenges the unspoken social taboos about the disabled body, unpacking myths of beauty and our complicity in upholding those myths Lit HubBorn with sacral agenesis, a visible congenital disability that affects her stature and gait, Chlo Cooper Jones had always found solace in what she thought of as the neutral room a dissociative space in her mind that offered her solace and selfprotection, but also kept her isolated.When she became pregnant (disproving her doctor, who had assumed it impossible), something necessary in her started to crack, forcing her to reckon with her defensive positionality to the world and the people in it. This prompted an odyssey across time and space as Chlo while at museums, operas, concerts and sporting events, and in the presence of aweinspiring nature reconsidered the consciousnessshifting power of beauty.A book of the year for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Time, BuzzFeed, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, Vulture, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and New York Public Library