Philosophy professor and Pulitzer-nominated writer Chloé Cooper Jones's new memoir confronts a topic she's never written about before: her own experience of disability.
She was born with sacral agenesis, a rare birth defect involving abnormal development of the spine.
The condition causes her near-constant physical pain, affects the size and shape of her body and the way she walks.
Chloé Cooper Jones says that even though it is the lens through which the world sees her, she had never wanted to write about her disability - until now. She speaks with Susie Ferguson about Easy Beauty from New York, where she lives with her husband and son.
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