![]() ![]() She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to “the neutral room in her mind” until it passed. ![]() But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as “less than.” The way she has been seen-or not seen-has informed her lens on the world her entire life. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. ![]() ![]() Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations” into every plan, every situation. So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 * Vulture ’s #1 Memoir of 2022 * A Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Time, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Yearįrom Chloé Cooper Jones-Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient-an “exquisite” ( Oprah Daily ) and groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. ![]()
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