<b>A frank, witty, and dazzlingly written memoir of one woman trying to keep it together while her body falls apart&mdash;from the</b> <b>&ldquo;brilliant mind&rdquo; (Michaela Coel, creator of <i>I May Destroy You</i>) behind</b> <b><i>Shutterbabe</i></b><br>&#160;<br><b>&ldquo;The most laugh-out-loud story of resilience you&rsquo;ll ever read and an essential road map for the importance of narrative as a tool of healing.&rdquo;&mdash;Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of <i>Maybe You Should Talk to Someone</i></b><br><i>I&rsquo;m crawling around on the bathroom floor, picking up pieces of myself. These pieces are not a metaphor. They are actual pieces.<br></i> &#160;<br>Twenty years after her iconic memoir&#160;<i>Shutterbabe,</i>&#160;Deborah Copaken is at her darkly comedic nadir: battered, broke, divorcing, dissected, and dying&mdash;literally&mdash;on sexism&rsquo;s 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.<br><i><br>Ladyparts</i>&#160;is&#160;Copaken&rsquo;s&#160;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 father&rsquo;s 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 book&rsquo;s narrative skeleton: vagina, uterus, breast, heart, cervix, brain, and lungs.&#160;Copaken&#160;bounces back from each bum body part, finds workarounds for every setback&mdash;she transforms her home into a commune to pay rent,&#160;sells her soul for health insurance,&#160;turns FBI informant when her sexual harasser&#160;gets a presidential appointment&mdash;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.<br>Side-splittingly funny one minute, a freak horror show the next, quintessentially American&#160;throughout,&#160;<i>Ladyparts</i>&#160;is an era-defining&#160;memoir.

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