- Blurb -
A Boob' s Life explores the surprising truth about women' s most popular body part with vulnerable, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts-or loves them. *Now in development with Salma Hayak as a TV series for HBO Max* Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. She' s gone from size AA to DDD and everything between, from puberty to motherhood, enhancement to cancer, and beyond. And she' s not alone-these are classic life stages for women today. At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob' s Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman' s body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women' s liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America' s obsession with the female form has affected her own life' s journey and the psyche of all women today. From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr' s life-long passion. A Boob' s Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you' ll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.
- Reviews -
"As women we are always asking ourselves, are we enough? Leslie Lehr' s witty, wise, and sometimes heartbreaking memoir, A Boob' s Life, uses our relationship with breasts, and the ways others define us through them, to explore what it means to live in a woman' s body. Original, thought-provoking, and with an elegant sense of humor, A Boob' s Life is a must-read. " -- Salma Hayek "When I was a little girl dreaming of having breasts, I had no idea about the non-stop ogling and boob worship I was in for as a woman in America. Leslie Lehr explains it all in this funny, passionate, upbeat book. You' ll never look at yourself in the mirror the same way again. Wow!" -- Leslie Morgan Steiner, New York Times best-selling author of ' The Naked Truth,' ' Crazy Love,' and ' Mommy Wars' "Novelist and screenwriter Lehr blends memoir, history, and cultural criticism in this witty and incisive look at American attitudes toward women' s breasts. Lehr' s appealing sense of humor runs throughout, as does her sharp analysis of broader social issues. Lehr' s engrossing and empathetic account will appeal to women of all ages. " * Publishers Weekly * "A serious and provocative book with enough lightness to keep the pages turning. " * Kirkus Reviews * "Deeply personal, wisely funny, and moving. This isn' t just a fantastic, intimate memoir about how cancer, survival, and life in general changed Lehr' s entire relationship with her body parts, but an exploration of how our breast-obsessed culture, women' s lib, and men, have shaped our feelings about breasts. Insightful, delightful, and eye-opening. " -- Caroline Leavitt, New York Times Bestselling author of Pictures of You and With or Without You "A powerful emotinoal chronicle of a young girl' s budding awareness of the power of breasts; a young woman' s negotiations as an object of male desire; a mother' s loving perspective on her children' s food source, and an adult woman' s struggle with a disease that could take her life. An insightful, comprehensive, modern-day manifesto that champions a woman' s totality. " -- Hope Edelman, bestselling author of Motherless Daughter' s and The AfterGrief "Poignant, powerful, and ultimately hopeful-who would think a breast could properly capture the history of women in our country? A Boob' s Life makes you realize women in America have been through a lot. That you have been through a lot. Equality must be the next wave. It can' t come soon enough. " -- Kaira Rouda, international and USA TODAY bestselling author "Told with heart, humor, hope, and a whole lot of sassiness. Lehr fearlessly and candidly brings us along on her breast cancer journey and beyond. Have a box of tissues at the ready as you read this deeply personal memoir. You' ll need them to wipe away tears of heartache and laughter. " -- Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Weight of Silence and This is How I Lied "Brave, honest, and funny, this book will open your eyes, break your heart, and make you reflect on your own life and history. " -- Brenda Janowitz, author of The Grace Kelly Dress
- Author Bio -
Leslie Lehr is a prize-winning author, screenwriter, essayist, and story consultant. She is the author of 66 Laps, Wife Goes On, and What a Mother Knows, and her essays have been published in the New York Times Modern Love column and Huffington Post. She is a member of PEN, the Authors Guild, WGA, Women In Film, and the Women' s Leadership Council. She lives in Southern California.
- Full Details -
Status: | Active |
ISBN-13: | 9781643136226 |
Published: | 1 Apr 2021 |
Published In: | United States |
Imprint: | Pegasus Books |
Publisher: | Pegasus Books |
Format: | Hardback |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine: | 36mm |
Weight: | 533g |
Pages: | 312 |
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