Ladyparts: A Memoir
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- Synopsis
- 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 &“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 SomeoneNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLEI&’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.
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 496 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781984855480
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781984855497
- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 03/06/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Deborah Copaken
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Health, Mind and Body, Social Studies
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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