{"product_id":"ladyparts-a-memoir-9781984855473b","title":"Ladyparts: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eA frank, witty, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her body falls apart—from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eShutterbabe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI’m crawling around on the bathroom floor, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not a metaphor. They are actual pieces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eTwenty years after the publication of her iconic \u003ci\u003eShutterbabe,\u003c\/i\u003e we  remeet Deborah Copaken at her darkly comedic nadir: battered, broke,  divorcing, dissected, and dying—literally—on sexism’s battlefield as she deliriously scoops up  what she believes to be her internal organs, which have fallen out of  her body, into a glass Tupperware container before heading off to the  hospital for emergency surgery . . . in an UberPool.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart cri de coeur cautionary tale, part dystopian tragicomedy, \u003ci\u003eLadyparts\u003c\/i\u003e is  Copaken’s irreverent inventory of both the female body and the body  politic of womanhood in America. With her journalist’s eye, her novelist’s heart, and her  performer’s sense of timing, she provides a frontline account of one  woman brought to her knees by the one-two-twelve punch of divorce, solo  motherhood, lack of healthcare, unaffordable childcare, shady landlords, her father’s death, college tuitions, sexual  harassment, corporate indifference, ageism, sexism, and just plain old  bad luck. Plus seven serious illnesses, one on top of the other, which  provide the book’s narrative skeleton: vagina, uterus, breast, heart, cervix, brain, and lungs. She keeps bouncing back from  each bum body part and finding the black humor in every setback, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurning  her Harlem home into a commune to pay rent and have childcare, she  trades her life as a bestselling novelist to apply for full-time  corporate gigs that come with health insurance but often not scruples. She gets fired from a health  magazine for being unhealthy; laid off from a PR firm for rushing home  to deal with a child’s medical emergency; and sexually harassed out of  her newspaper column, only to be grilled by the FBI when her harasser is offered a plum job in the White House.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSide-splittingly funny one minute, a freak horror show the next, and quintessentially American, \u003ci\u003eLadyparts\u003c\/i\u003e is an era-defining memoir for our time.","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42826181935184,"sku":"9781984855473B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781984855473-l.jpg?v=1785904505","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/ladyparts-a-memoir-9781984855473b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}