Book : Ladyparts A Memoir - Copaken, Deborah

-Titulo Original : Ladyparts A Memoir

-Fabricante :

Random House

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A frank, witty, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her body falls apart-from the “brilliant mind” (Michaela Coel, creator of I May Destroy You) behind Shutterbabe NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE * “The most laugh-out-loud story of resilience you’ll ever read and an essential road map for the importance of narrative as a tool of healing.”-Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to SomeoneI’m crawling around on the bathroom floor, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not a metaphor. They are actual pieces. Twenty years after her iconic memoir Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken is at her darkly comedic nadir: battered, broke, divorcing, dissected, and dying-literally-on sexism’s battlefield as she scoops up what she believes to be her internal organs into a glass container before heading off to the hospital . . . in an UberPool.Ladyparts is Copaken’s irreverent inventory of both the female body and the body politic of womanhood in America, the story of one woman brought to her knees by the one-two-twelve punch of divorce, solo motherhood, healthcare Frogger, unaffordable childcare, shady landlords, her father’s death, college tuitions, sexual harassment, corporate indifference, ageism, sexism, and plain old bad luck. Plus seven serious illnesses, one atop the other, which provide the book’s narrative skeleton: vagina, uterus, breast, heart, cervix, brain, and lungs. Copaken bounces back from each bum body part, finds workarounds for every setback-she transforms her home into a commune to pay rent, sells her soul for health insurance, turns FBI informant when her sexual harasser gets a presidential appointment-but in her slippery struggle to survive a steep plunge off the middle-class ladder, she is suddenly awoken to what it means to have no safety net.Side-splittingly funny one minute, a freak horror show the next, quintessentially American throughout, Ladyparts is an era-defining memoir. Review Early buzz for Ladyparts: “Another new favorite [of Michaela Coel’s] is author Deborah Copaken’supcoming book Ladyparts. ‘She’s a writer on Emily in Paris, but she is abrilliant novelist,’ Coel says of Copaken, who wrote an op-ed lamentingover ‘I May Destroy You’s’ Golden Globes snub earlier this year. ‘I got intouch with her this year. And she sent me an early release of her book, andshe’s got a brilliant mind and she’s got a really brilliant impressive andquite shocking life.’”-Michaela Coel, creator of I May Destroy You, as quoted in Variety “Eye-opening, breathtaking, terrifying, enraging, but most of allheartbreakingly funny-I recommend it for everyone I know, but most of allto the men. We know almost nothing about the women we love, their bodiesand their struggles. Don’t look away-read this book.”-Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning, NYT bestselling author of Less Ladyparts is, quite simply, a beautiful book. Equal part harrowing andhilarious, enraging and heartwarming, its a memoir unlike any other. Itwill open your eyes to what it means to be female in a male world, older ina society built around youth worship--or just on the wrong side of variancewhen the lottery of genes and life doesnt turn in your favor. And it willdo it all while making you laugh, cry, and scream in turn. I couldnt putit down.-Maria Konnikova, NYT bestselling author of The Biggest Bluff and The Confidence Game Ladyparts is a first-rate example of the contemporary memoir, harrowing,sad, funny, revelatory, true. Were you to misconstrue the title, you mightthink this was all simply anatomy, which would be fine, but as with all thebest memoirs what this work really anatomizes is how it all feels--in themind, in the soul, and in the nick of time. Copakens memoir is poignant,necessary, and very rewarding.-Rick Moody, award-winning author of The Ice Storm and The Long Accomplishment “Every now and then you read a book that you know