Ladyparts
Author: Copaken, Deborah
ISBN: 9781984855497
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 26 Nov 2024
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;A frank, witty, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her body falls apartP#8212;from the P#8220;brilliant mindP#8221; (Michaela Coel, creator of Plt;iPgt;I May Destroy YouPlt;/iPgt;) behind Plt;iPgt;ShutterbabePlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#8220;The most laugh-out-loud story of resilience youP#8217;ll ever read and an essential road map for the importance of narrative as a tool of healing.P#8221;P#8212;Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Plt;iPgt;Maybe You Should Talk to SomeonePlt;/iPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Plt;iPgt;REAL SIMPLEPlt;brPgt;Plt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;IP#8217;m crawling around on the bathroom floor, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not a metaphor. They are actual pieces.Plt;brPgt;Plt;/iPgt; P#160;Plt;brPgt;Twenty years after her iconic memoir Plt;iPgt;Shutterbabe,Plt;/iPgt; Deborah Copaken is at her darkly comedic nadir: battered, broke, divorcing, dissected, and dyingP#8212;literallyP#8212;on sexismP#8217;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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Plt;brPgt;LadypartsPlt;/iPgt; isP#160;CopakenP#8217;sP#160;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 fatherP#8217;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 bookP#8217;s narrative skeleton: vagina, uterus, breast, heart, cervix, brain, and lungs.P#160;CopakenP#160;bounces back from each bum body part, finds workarounds for every setbackP#8212;she transforms her home into a commune to pay rent,P#160;sells her soul for health insurance,P#160;turns FBI informant when her sexual harasserP#160;gets a presidential appointmentP#8212;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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Side-splittingly funny one minute, a freak horror show the next, quintessentially American throughout, Plt;iPgt;LadypartsPlt;/iPgt; is an era-definingP#160;memoir.
ISBN: 9781984855497
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 26 Nov 2024
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback / softback
Plt;bPgt;A frank, witty, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her body falls apartP#8212;from the P#8220;brilliant mindP#8221; (Michaela Coel, creator of Plt;iPgt;I May Destroy YouPlt;/iPgt;) behind Plt;iPgt;ShutterbabePlt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;P#160;Plt;brPgt;Plt;bPgt;P#8220;The most laugh-out-loud story of resilience youP#8217;ll ever read and an essential road map for the importance of narrative as a tool of healing.P#8221;P#8212;Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Plt;iPgt;Maybe You Should Talk to SomeonePlt;/iPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Plt;iPgt;REAL SIMPLEPlt;brPgt;Plt;/iPgt;Plt;/bPgt;Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;IP#8217;m crawling around on the bathroom floor, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not a metaphor. They are actual pieces.Plt;brPgt;Plt;/iPgt; P#160;Plt;brPgt;Twenty years after her iconic memoir Plt;iPgt;Shutterbabe,Plt;/iPgt; Deborah Copaken is at her darkly comedic nadir: battered, broke, divorcing, dissected, and dyingP#8212;literallyP#8212;on sexismP#8217;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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;iPgt;Plt;brPgt;LadypartsPlt;/iPgt; isP#160;CopakenP#8217;sP#160;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 fatherP#8217;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 bookP#8217;s narrative skeleton: vagina, uterus, breast, heart, cervix, brain, and lungs.P#160;CopakenP#160;bounces back from each bum body part, finds workarounds for every setbackP#8212;she transforms her home into a commune to pay rent,P#160;sells her soul for health insurance,P#160;turns FBI informant when her sexual harasserP#160;gets a presidential appointmentP#8212;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.Plt;brPgt;Plt;brPgt;Side-splittingly funny one minute, a freak horror show the next, quintessentially American throughout, Plt;iPgt;LadypartsPlt;/iPgt; is an era-definingP#160;memoir.
