Chloé Cooper Jones Professor, Journalist, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and Disability Advocate

A rich, decadent book that rewards close reading… anyone who immerses themselves in Chloé’s writing will come away with a greater understanding of everything beautiful about the human experience, and how to behold it.”
—Isaac Fitzgerald, The Today Show

Easy Beauty is bold, honest, and superbly well-written. Chloé Cooper Jones is ruthless in probing our weakest and darkest areas, and does so with grace, humor, and ultimately, with something one seldom finds: kindness and humanity.”
—André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name

Part travelogue and part treatise… Philosophy, art, gender, sex, travel, motherhood, academia, humor—this book has it all.”
—New York Public Library

Jones resists sentimentality and is as unsparing on herself as she is on other people, yet she writes with such graciousness, too. A wonderful debut.”
—Buzzfeed

Transcendent… In keeping the reader close as she navigates the world, Jones lets us in on the effort it takes to move through the world in a disabled body… This is all rendered in sentences, insights, and metaphors so precise and evocative that demonstrate her literary mastery.”
—Oprah Daily

A spiky and inspiring book for any reader at odds with a superficial culture.”
—Los Angeles Times

Soul-stretching, breathtaking… A profound, impressive, and wiser-than-wise contemplation of the way Jones is viewed by others, her own collusion in those views, and whether any of this can be shifted… A game-changing gift to readers.”
—Booklist (starred review)

[In her] dazzling debut…Chloé Cooper Jones challenges society’s rules of attraction with razor-sharp wit and intellect….[and] makes a brilliant case for the beauty of complexity.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Perceptive, stylish, and darkly funny, Easy Beauty is an act of grace, and a reckoning. Chloé Cooper Jones is a remarkable writer—I would follow her mind anywhere.”
—Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny Valley

I recommend Easy Beauty to anyone who has wanted beauty badly, even without knowing quite what it is, but who could never seem to access it. At least, I’m that sort of anyone, and I could feel and recognize parts of myself in every moment of this book. Chloé Cooper Jones’ writing pierces right through and lets a light in.”
—Mitski 

Chloé Cooper Jones is a writer whose work I don’t read, but enter: she weaves her brainy, crackling interior into the sinews of a reality that is forever reminding its participants of the difficulty of living inside a body. Easy Beauty is the most humane book I have read in a long time: in her insistence that we bear witness to each other, Jones calls forth a better, and indeed more beautiful world. I loved this book.”
—Kristen Radtke, author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

[An] exquisite memoir. Here Pulitzer finalist Jones reflects on our standards of beauty from the perspective of a disabled woman whose rare congenital condition affects her stature and gait, and leaves her in constant pain. But it’s ultimately motherhood that liberates her, and prompts her to reexamine the limitations she has accepted as givens.”
—O Magazine