![]() ![]() ![]() Jones was born with a rare congenital condition known as sacral agenesis, meaning without a sacrum, the bone that sits at the base of the spine and connects it to the pelvis. This rejection is a defense mechanism hard-won after a lifetime spent pushed (or, later, retreating) to the margins. ![]() “Anything of such mass appeal must be…merely facile pleasure,” she writes, “or what British philosopher Bernard Bosanquet called easy beauty.” Recounting a former student’s insistence that Jones must see Beyoncé live in concert, describing it as the moment of a life-changing epiphany, Jones instinctively dismisses the idea that she might experience anything close to profound at an event so obvious, so loud, so broad as a pop concert. About halfway through Pulitzer Prize finalist Chloé Cooper Jones’s transcendent (and highly anticipated) debut memoir, Easy Beauty, she drops the meaning of the title. ![]()
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