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Easy Beauty: A Memoir

Chloé Cooper Jones

I was in a bar in Brooklyn listening to two men discuss whether or not my life was worth living. Chloé Cooper Jones was born with a rare congenital disorder, sacral agenesis. Living with a visible, often painful disability, she set boundaries that sheltered her from the constant gaze of strangers. It was only once she became a mother that she realized she had to give herself permission to live freely, in a way that honors the bodies we are born with, in a way that would be worthy of her son. Easy Beauty is a luminous memoir about fate and ability, but it is also a close philosophical examination of what happens when we look and are looked at. By taking on the greatest questions - personal and ethical - of her own life, Chloé challenges our own complicity with otherness and invites us on a journey across the world and into the mirror in search of a new way of seeing.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · medium confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyAward Category: Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography -> BiographyAward Category: Biography -> BiographyMemoir & Personal HistoryArtistic BiographyLiterature & Writers

Award History

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or AutobiographyMajor2023FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Chloé Cooper Jones82%

  2. 02 Central places

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    • Brooklyn56%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

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    The memoir argues that giving herself permission to live freely reframes how she views disability and also challenges readers’ complicity in how “otherness” is produced through looking.

    Model confidence 52%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    28 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 70%.