Breasts, Jean Hannah Edelstein
Breasts, Jean Hannah Edelstein
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Breasts
A Relatively Brief Relationship – the funny, moving and universally relatable new memoir

Author: Jean Hannah Edelstein

Narrator: Jean Hannah Edelstein

Unabridged: 2 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Phoenix

Published: 04/03/2025

Synopsis

'Has the power to knock the breath out of you'
THE TIMES

'A must-read'
JESSIE BURTON

'One of the most brilliant writers of her generation, as witty, wry and unsentimental as Nora Ephron'
OLIVIA LAING

'I LOVED this book'
NINA STIBBE

In this short, striking memoir, Jean Hannah Edelstein charts the course of her unexpectedly brief relationship with breasts.
As she comes of age, she learns that breasts are a source of both shame and power. In early motherhood, she sees her breasts transform into a source of sustenance and a locus of pain. And then, all too soon, she is faced with a diagnosis and forced to confront what it means to lose and rebuild an essential part of yourself.

Funny and moving, elegant and furious and full of heart, Breasts is an original and indispensable read. It is both an intimate account of one woman's relationship with her own body and a universally relatable story for anyone who has ever had - or lost - breasts.

'Painful and funny and essential'
FRANCESCA SEGAL

'A thunderclap . . . I was blown away'
MARIANNE LEVY

'A tit punch of a book'
ROSAMUND DEAN

'Nobody writes about the curveballs life throws at you, or helps you deal with them, like Jean Hannah Edelstein'
DAVID WHITEHOUSE

About Jean Hannah Edelstein

Jean Hannah Edelstein is a British-American writer. Her memoir, This Really Isn't About You, was published by Picador in 2018. Her journalism has been published in numerous UK and US outlets, including the Guardian, Elle and New York Magazine, and she's contributed to radio programmes including This American Life. She lives with her family in Montclair, New Jersey.

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Has the power to knock the breath out of you . . . you relish her cool eloquence and wit, then feel the burn of her white-hot rage. To many women, Edelstein's words will feel cathartic . . . Breasts feels like a classic The Times

This is an uplifting volume, as well as a short, sharp shock . . . fascinating and important . . . How wonderful that we have this sane, detailed and funny account Spectator

A wonderful book about the author's unexpectedly brief relationship with her breasts. The titles of the book's three sections will give you an idea of what happens: sex, food, cancer. Edelstein is a brilliantly clear-eyed and insightful writer and packs so much into only 100 pages Evening Standard

Jean Hannah Edelstein is a glorious writer. I LOVED this book - furious and moving and laugh-out-loud funny

In this unwavering, sharp and profoundly thoughtful memoir, Jean Hannah Edelstein unfolds her experiences, both universal and devastatingly unique, with trademark tenderness and wit . . . a must-read

Brilliant and exquisite. Nobody writes about the curveballs life throws at you, or helps you deal with them, like Jean Hannah Edelstein

Absolutely loved it. Painful and funny and essential

Jean Hannah Edelstein is honest, cynical, loving and funny. Breasts is a special book - short and powerful with no messing around. For people with breasts, mothers, women with cancer, and the people who love them, it will be an indispensable read

Unique and beautiful . . . so tender and furious and funny

With brevity, piquancy and wit, Jean Hannah Edelstein has written a memoir that speaks directly to the public and private nature of bodies and autonomy. Her prose has the buoyancy and bravery of fellow New Yorker Laurie Colwin

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