Chloé Cooper Jones

Chloé Cooper Jones is the author of the Easy Beauty. Because the text is Cooper Jones’s memoir, she presents the work from her first person point of view. This narrative vantage is organic to the genre, and provides the reader immediate access to Cooper Jones’s life and story, as well as to her most private thoughts and vulnerable feelings. Because of the personal narrative style that Cooper Jones employs throughout Easy Beauty, this guide primarily refers to the author by her first name when referencing her experiences and memories as they are presented in the text.

Chloé grew up in Kansas. She was primarily raised by her mother, “a grade school teacher, on her farm” (20). At the time of her birth, Chloé’s mother and father were living in Kathmandu. Chloé was then born in Bangkok. Because she was born with sacral agenesis...