From Chlo Cooper JonesPulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipienta groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and a journey to far-flung places in search of a new way of seeing and being seen.';I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.' So begins Chlo Cooper Jones's bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor ';pain calculations' into every plan, every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as ';less than.' The way she has been seenor not seenhas informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to ';the neutral room in her mind' until it
