Witty and heartfelt, sharp and irreverent, this is a book for anyone who has ever tried to stand on their head while keeping both feet on the ground. Ten years ago, Claire Dederer threw her back out breastfeeding her baby daughter. Yoga seemed to fit right into this virtuous programme, but to her surprise the deeper Claire went into the poses the more they tested her most basic ideas of what goodness really means.Poser tells the story of how yoga helped Claire to discover that being joyful is sometimes more important than being good. Monsters by Claire Dederer: 9780525655114 : Books NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK Can we love the work of Hemingway, Polanski, Naipaul, Miles Davis, or Picasso. 'Monsters: A Fans Dilemma' by Claire Dederer Alfred A.

At the same time she found herself confronting the forces that shaped her generation.Daughters of women who ran away to find themselves and made a few messes along the way, Claire and her peers grew up determined to be good, good, good. 10 hours ago &0183 &32 NONFICTION: An exploration of whether great art can come from deeply flawed artists. She fell madly in love.Over the next decade, she tackled Triangle, Wheel and the dreaded Crow, becoming fast friends with some poses and developing long-standing feuds with others. Claire Dederer, with her supple mommy memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, has delivered an accessible, fresh look at feminism, liberalism, family life and literary coupledom, lightly sprinkled with enough yogic information to warrant its title and give the book some structure. Love and Trouble by Claire Dederer: 9781101970034 : Books Blazingly intelligent, wickedly funny, and piercingly honest, a memoir that captures the perils and pleasures of girlhood, womanhood, and life itself. Told to try yoga by everyone from the woman behind the counter at the co-op to the homeless guy on the corner, she signed up for her first class.

Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocious, sexy, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.

Poser by Claire Dederer