Deborah Copaken Book order

Breasts. Uterus. Cervix. Heart. Vagina. These are often seen as the sources of life, but for writer and photographer Deborah Copaken, they became symbols of struggle. After escaping an abusive marriage and navigating single parenthood, she faced the daunting task of rebuilding her life. A Fourth of July health scare brought new meaning to “rocket's red glare,” while wearing a heart monitor on dates illustrated her journey to heal both her heart and spirit. Copaken's narrative is an irreverent exploration of the female body and its ailments, revealing the irony of bodily breakdown amid profound personal upheaval. With black humor and raw honesty, she portrays a woman in revolt, confronting blood clots, breast exams, heart palpitations, and heartbreaks. Her experiences highlight the terror, loneliness, and empowerment of a woman fighting for her life. By intertwining her harrowing story with medical and historical insights, Copaken sheds light on common health issues that amplify the everyday challenges women face, such as distorted beauty standards, workplace sexism, romantic insecurities, and distrust of their own bodies.

Un hilo rebelde y lleno de nudos recorre la vida de las mujeres del siglo XX hasta hoy. Comenzamos con una chica abriéndose paso en Nueva York en 1912, seguida por relatos de la vida en Manhattan en los años cincuenta y las dudas de las mujeres en los inicios del feminismo. Ahora, el hilo llega a las vidas de cuatro estudiantes en los ochenta y noventa, en una época sin Facebook, donde compartían sus experiencias en un cuaderno de tapas rojas. Clover, Addison, Jane y Mia llenaron esas páginas, pero reencontrarse veinte años después para confrontar sueños y realidades resulta un desafío. A lo largo de un intenso y a veces doloroso fin de semana, las cuatro amigas se proponen reflexionar sobre su pasado y el presente. ¿Pueden unos días bien aprovechados transformar su mundo y ofrecerles una nueva perspectiva de la vida? Esta novela promete respuestas. "Una novela destinada a convertirse en un clásico... Un retrato de la mujer que puede compararse con El grupo de Mary McCarthy." Vanity Fair.

When a deep-seated memory suddenly surfaces, Elizabeth Burns becomes obsessed with the long-ago disappearance of her childhood friend April Cassidy. Driven to investigate, Elizabeth discovers a thirty-five-year-old newspaper article revealing the details that had been hidden from her as a child―shocking revelations about April's mother, Adele.Elizabeth, now herself a mother, seeks out anyone who might help piece together the final months, days, and hours of this troubled woman's life, but the answers yield only more questions. And those questions lead back to Elizabeth's own her own compromised marriage, her increasing self-doubt and dissatisfaction, and finally, a fearsome reckoning with what it means to be a wife and mother.

Die junge Journalistin berichtet über ihre Arbeit als Fotojournalistin in den Krisengebieten der Welt.

Fresh out of college and passionate about photography, Deborah Copaken Kogan moved to Paris in 1988 and began knocking on photo agency doors, begging to be given a photojournalism assignment. Within weeks she was on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, the only woman—and the only journalist—in a convoy of mujahideen, the rebel “freedom fighters” at the time. She had traveled there with a handsome but dangerously unpredictable Frenchman, and the interwoven stories of their relationship and the assignment set the pace for Shutterbabe ’s six chapters, each covering a different corner of the globe, each linked to a man in Kogan’s life at the time. From Zimbabwe to Romania, from Russia to Haiti, Kogan takes her readers on a heartbreaking yet surprisingly hilarious journey through a mine-strewn decade, seamlessly blending her personal battles—sexism, battery, life-threatening danger—with the historical ones—wars, revolution, unfathomable suffering—it was her job to record.

The memoirs of a photojournalist finding and fighting her way through the war zones of the world experiencing the danger, pain, truths and even love on the way.