Elizabeth Benedict

Me, My Hair, and I (eBook, ePUB)

Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Curl up with these "astonishingly good essays" about hair and its many meanings by Anne Lamott, Suleika Jaouad, Maria Hinojosa, Marita Golden, and more (People). Ask a woman about her hair, and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair, and you could get a history of the world. The essays in Me, My Hair, and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of women's lives from family, race, religion, and motherhood to culture, health, politics, and sexuality. They take place in African American kitchens, at Hindu Bengali weddings, and inside Hasidic Jewish homes. Also layered into these intimate reminiscences are tributes to influences from Farrah Fawcett to Botticelli's Venus. The long and the short of it is that our hair is our glory-and our nemesis, our history, our self-esteem, our joy, our mortality. Every woman knows that many things in life matter more than hair, but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo. "A deliciously enlightening read, equal parts fun and poignant." -Chicago Tribune "Explores a surprising range of issues, including identity, relationships, vanity, femininity, aging, and society." -The New York Times "Untangles the many truths about hair, and the lives we lead underneath it." -Pamela Druckerman, New York Times-bestselling author of Bringing Up Bébé "[A] splendid collection . . . By turns wry, tender, pointed, and laugh-out-loud funny." -Publishers Weekly

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Algonquin Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781616205430
• Artikelnr.: 53146025

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Benedict is a graduate of Barnard College and the author of five novels, including the bestseller Almost and the National Book Award finalist Slow Dancing. She is the editor of the anthologies What My Mother Gave Me, a New York Times bestseller, and Mentors, Muses & Monsters, and has written for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Esquire, and the Huffington Post, the Rumpus, and Tin House. Two of her essays have been selected for Best American Essays collections. She has taught widely and works as a writing coach and editor.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
The Rapunzel Complex 1 Suleika Jaouad
Hair
Interrupted 9 Marita Golden
My Black Hair 19 Anne Lamott
Sister 35 Patricia Volk
Frizzball 47 Alex Kuczynski
And Be Sure to Tell Your Mother 55 Rosie Schaap
Kozmic Hippie Hair Breakdown Blues 67 Bharati Mukherjee
Romance and Ritual 75 Emma Gilbey Keller
My Thick Hair 85 Adriana Trigiani
Oh Capello 95 Deborah Tannen
Why Mothers and Daughters Tangle over Hair 105 Honor Moore
Beautiful
Beautiful 117 Maria Hinojosa
My Wild Hair 131 Jane Green
Love at Last 139 Deborah Feldman
The Cutoff 147 Ru Freeman
Glory 157 Elizabeth Searle
Act Tresses: Hair as Performance Art 171 Hallie Ephron
Remembering Sandra Dee 185 Katie Hafner
Maids of the Mist 195 Deborah Jiang-Stein
Hair in Three Parts 205 Siri Hustvedt
Much Ado about Hairdos 215 Myra Goldberg
Two Hair Stories from One Life 231 Julia Fierro
Capelli Lunghi 243 Deborah Hofmann
Heavy Mettle 255 Jane Smiley
At Last
I Learn How to Turn Heads 269 Anne Kreamer
Getting Real 277 Elizabeth Benedict
No
I Won’t Go Gray 287 Contributors 299