num_pages: 336
description: Ask a woman about her hair and she just might tell you the story of her life. Ask a whole bunch of women about their hair and you could get a history of the world. Surprising insightful frequently funny and always forthright the essays in Me My Hair and I are reflections and revelations about every aspect of womens lives from family race religion and motherhood to culture health politics and sexuality. They take place in African American kitchens at Hindu Bengali weddings and inside Hasidic Jewish homes. The conversation is intimate and global at once. Layered into these reminiscences are tributes to influences throughout history: Jackie Kennedy Lena Horne Farrah Fawcett the Grateful Dead and Botticellis Venus. The long and the short of it is that our hair is our gloryand our nemesis our history our self-esteem our joy our mortality. Every woman knows that many things in life matter more than hair but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo.
language: English
title: Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession
publisher: Algonquin Books