Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

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Product Details

Price
$30.00  $27.90
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Publish Date
Pages
320
Dimensions
6.5 X 9.3 X 1.3 inches | 1.45 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780525659495

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About the Author

SELMA BLAIR is an actress best known for her roles in Legally Blonde, Cruel Intentions, The Sweetest Thing, and Hellboy. Blair was named a Time Person of the Year in 2017 as one of their Silence Breakers, and she was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her narration of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. She is the subject of the documentary Introducing, Selma Blair, which reveals Blair's intimate and raw journey with multiple sclerosis. Blair lives with her son in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Selma Blair is one mean baby and one mean writer! Blair honestly writes about the uncertainty, messiness, joy, and weirdness of living in a 'broken' body. Disability is not always constant or known and Mean Baby depicts this reality with compassion and grace."
--Alice Wong, editor of Disability Visibility

"Mean Baby, Selma Blair's brilliant book, demands attention. It grabs you by the collar and says listen to all that I have to say: about love, pain, motherhood, illness, celebrity, and the tidal ferocity that pours through all our lives. Read it and be caught in the voice of one of our luminous stars."
--Esmé Weijun Wang, best-selling author of The Collected Schizophrenias

"Selma Blair will take every expectation you have and shatter it with this beautiful book. It's less about illness than it is an effluence of hope, just when you can't imagine anyone having the spirit to summon it. If you've ever felt broken or lost, you'll find yourself on the pages of this book and maybe see a way to the high road when the author writes, To have been so lucky. The rejects and outsiders have spoken, Selma, and we've elected you Queen."
--Mary-Louise Parker, best-selling author of Dear Mr. You

"Mean Baby is straight-up terrific -- bold, intimate, sassy, profound -- and a vital reminder that the hectic glitter of the exterior rarely reflects the hard-earned wonder of the interior. So, while you might reach for Mean Baby because of the author's celebrity, you'll read into the night for her candor, eye for detail, and stunning prose. In an embarrassment of riches, Selma Blair is as talented a writer as she is an actress."
--Adrienne Brodeur, best-selling author of Wild Game

Mean Baby is a fascinating exploration about the power of prophecy, of labels, and of one woman's determination to defy them all. Blair is a rebel, an artist, and it turns out: a writer.
--
Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times best-seller Untamed and Founder of Together Rising

If you thought you knew Selma Blair, think again."
--Marie Claire