Book
Me, my hair, and I
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2015.
Physical Description
xvii, 316 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
In this collection of essays, women talk about their hair-- and in doing so, offer up reflections and revelations about family, race, religion, ritual, culture, motherhood, politics, and celebrity. Layered into these essays you'll find surprises, insights, hilarity, and the resonance of common experience. Many things in life matter more than hair, but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo.
Contents
- The Rapunzel complex / Hair, interrupted / My Black hair / Sister / Frizzball / And be sure to tell your mother / Kosmic hippie hair breakdown blues / Romance and ritual / My thick hair / Oh capello / Why mothers and daughters tangle over hair / Beautiful, beautiful / My wild hair / Love at last / The cutoff / Glory / Act tresses: hair as performance art / Remembering Sandra Dee / Maids of the mist / Hair in three parts / Much ado about hairdos / Two hair stories from one life / Capelli lunghi / Heavy mettle / At last, I learn how to turn heads / Getting real / No, I won't go gray