ASIN: B00JFZXOJK
Publisher: Claire Noble
Pages: 16
What's your gripe? Claire's is with her skin. For anyone who has ever had a pimple, a freckle, a wrinkle or a rash, Skingripe: One Woman's Struggle to Accept the Skin She's In, is a humorous commiseration of all that can go wrong with the body's largest and most visible organ. Skingripe employs wit, candor and self-deprecation to explore the universal theme of body image in this essay length selection. As a kid, Claire endured teasing for having freckles and suffered chronic sunburns from summers in west Texas. Initially, adulthood meant a reprieve from schoolyard taunting and held the promise of instantaneous enhancement through makeup. Soon, much too soon, the need for wrinkle creams emerged followed quickly by treatments to keep skin cancer at bay. Skingripe recounts Claire's struggle to care for and accept her skin, but not before spending an inordinate amount of time, money and ...
