Overview
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āThe most laugh-out-loud story of resilience youāll ever read and an essential road map for the importance of narrative as a tool of healing.āāLori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE
Iām crawling around on the bathroom floor, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not a metaphor. They are actual pieces.
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Twenty years after her iconic memoir Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken is at her darkly comedic nadir: battered, broke, divorcing, dissected, and dyingāliterallyāon sexismās 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 isĀ CopakenāsĀ 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 fatherās 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 bookās narrative skeleton: vagina, uterus, breast, heart, cervix, brain, and lungs.Ā CopakenĀ bounces back from each bum body part, finds workarounds for every setbackāshe transforms her home into a commune to pay rent,Ā sells her soul for health insurance,Ā turns FBI informant when her sexual harasserĀ gets a presidential appointmentābut 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-definingĀ memoir.
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