![]() ![]() ![]() As we travel to Milan and Rome on trains and buses, then later to Cambodia on tuk tuks and boats, we witness both the mundanity of travel in an inaccessible world, and the search for purpose through the trips themselves. The story quickly moves from Brooklyn to Italy, as Cooper Jones embarks on a research trip to visit the ancient monuments that will perhaps inform her next academic endeavor. ![]() The memoir opens, “I am in a bar in Brooklyn listening as two men, my friends, discuss whether or not my life is worth living,” and so sets the scene for the rest of the author’s experiences moving through the world as a person living with sacral agenesis, a rare condition that, among other complex things, causes her to live with chronic pain. It is as complex as she is, and the stories told connect the dots between what appear sometimes to be disparate parts of her life. Easy Beauty is a memoir of many things: Chloé Cooper Jones’s experience as an academic, a traveler, a mother, a partner, a tennis fan, a film critic, a disabled woman. ![]()
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