![]() ![]() “I named a lizard after you!” replies her friend. He inserts the coins, uncoils the scrap of paper from its plastic bubble, and reads the poem with a satisfied shrug.Īs the line dwindles to a final few, Jones reunites with an elementary school classmate she hasn’t seen in decades, reminiscing about how she named a dog after the classmate’s father. ![]() ![]() Jones’ 10-year-old son, Wolfgang, who kicked off the Q&A (“What was it like to write about all of this?”), comes over to request quarters for the bookstore’s poetry vending machine. Easy Beauty: A Memoir, published in April by Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, has been racking up national acclaim, earning spots on Oprah Daily’s 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2022 and IndieWire’s Indie Next lists, and receiving a Creative Nonfiction Grant from the Whiting Foundation and a Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University.Īfter a remarkable conversation between Jones and Raven Book Store owner Danny Caine, g’17, readers queuing up for a signature and a hello include Jones’ friends from childhood, co-workers from her high school job at a movie theater, her mother, Merrilee Cooper, and several horseback-riding buddies-along with many people Jones has never met who eagerly share stories of how her writing has made them feel seen and understood. Chloé Cooper Jones has almost reached the end of an hourlong signing at the Kansas release of her debut book. ![]()
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