Publication Date: May 9, 2023
Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. She’s gone from size AA to DDD and everything between, from puberty to motherhood, enhancement to cancer, and beyond. And she’s not alone—these are classic life stages for women today.
At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob’s Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman’s body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women’s liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America’s obsession with the female form has affected her own life’s journey and the psyche of all women today.
From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr’s life-long passion. A Boob’s Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you’ll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.
Author Leslie Lehr delivers what may be the definitive work on the impact breasts have in our society.
Her book, A Boob’s Life, is a mixture of tongue-in-cheek witticism along with her own personal journey. The book’s subtitle, How America’s Obsession Shaped Me…and You, is quite accurate.
Divided into three parts, the book focuses on the author’s perspective of breast envy as a young girl before shifting to adulthood and ending with womanhood. Packed into the book are the author’s personal stories and interesting fact sheets, including bare breasts in American film, boob jokes, and nicknames for breasts.
While fascinating to find all of this boob trivia in one place, the author’s relationship with her own breasts sheds light on America’s obsession. The author has a unique perspective in going from size AA to DDD and everything in between.
A Boob’s Life is a highly engaging look into the different stages of womanhood centering around breasts.
Leslie Lehr is a prize-winning author, screenwriter, essayist, and story consultant. She is the author of 66 Laps, Wife Goes On, and What a Mother Knows, and her essays have been published in the New York Times Modern Love column and Huffington Post. She is a member of PEN, the Authors Guild, WGA, Women In Film, and the Women’s Leadership Council. She lives in Southern California.
