Barnes & NobleA Boob's Life - How America's Obsession Shaped Me-and You by Leslie Lehr

Best Book I've read in a Long Time

This is a brilliant book that will move you to tears and make you laugh out loud. Putting great insight together with deep emotion is extremely difficult for any writer to pull off, but author Leslie Lehr has done it. The book begins by taking you on her personal journey as she overcomes the obstacles in her life, both large and small. But then she quickly taps into the zeitgeist better than any book in years. She effectively uses a subject, a premise, and an entirely new genre structure that together touches a nerve in a totally original way. A Boob’s Life is a comical twist on the title of the famous memoir, A Boy’s Life. It’s primarily a comedy, and a surprisingly funny one at that. It’s the story of her own life but told through the point of view of her breasts and how they affected every major stage of her life. In my opinion by doing this she accomplishes the biggest feat for a memoir – showing how hers is everywoman’s story. Not only that, she also added the genre of cultural commentary, which completely transcends the personal memoir form. She shows how America’s obsession with over-sexualizing breasts through advertising created a perfect storm of expectations of beauty and behavior that harms women. Lehr pays off all these threads and reverberates with today’s challenges faced by women by coming to a new revelation about her own feminism, an inclusionary feminism for everyone, showing that justice for women, of every appearance, is freedom for us all. That’s really something, and it’s an incredibly fun journey to go on with her. If you want something that makes you laugh, cry, and maybe think about yourself and your world in a whole new way, read this book!