Me, My Hair, and I [First edition] 9781616205430, 1616205431

In this collection of essays, women talk about their hair-- and in doing so, offer up reflections and revelations about

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English Pages xvii, 316 pages Year 2015

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Me, My Hair, and I [First edition]
 9781616205430, 1616205431

Table of contents :
The Rapunzel complex / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein --
Hair, interrupted / Suleika Jaouad --
My Black hair / Marita Golden --
Sister / Anne Lamott --
Frizzball / Patricia Volk --
And be sure to tell your mother / Alex Kuczynski --
Kosmic hippie hair breakdown blues / Rosie Schaap --
Romance and ritual / Bharati Mukherjee --
My thick hair / Emma Gilbey Keller --
Oh capello / Adriana Trigiani --
Why mothers and daughters tangle over hair / Deborah Tannen --
Beautiful, beautiful / Honor Moore --
My wild hair / Maria Hinojosa --
Love at last / Jane Green --
The cutoff / Deborah Feldman --
Glory / Ru Freeman --
Act tresses: hair as performance art / Elizabeth Searle --
Remembering Sandra Dee / Hallie Ephron --
Maids of the mist / Katie Hafner --
Hair in three parts / Deborah Jiang-Stein --
Much ado about hairdos / Siri Hustvedt --
Two hair stories from one life / Myra Goldberg --
Capelli lunghi / Julia Fierro --
Heavy mettle / Deborah Hofmann --
At last, I learn how to turn heads / Jane Smiley --
Getting real / Anne Kreamer --
No, I won't go gray / Elizabeth Benedict.

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