A Boob’s Life

How America’s Obsession Shaped Me...and You

By: Leslie Lehr

Narrated by: Leslie Lehr

Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

A Boob’s Life explores the surprising truth about women’s most popular body part with vulnerable, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts - or loves them.

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 listeners 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.

©2021 Leslie Lehr (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

Yes - and also nooooooo

This heteronormative part-memoir/part-social science text addresses some complex issues about the role of breasts in society. However, it lacks some editing, exists largely as a space for the author - by all accounts a traditionally attractive, privileged white woman - to air out her own guilt and biases.

Not what I thought

It’s an interesting perspective but took a long time to get to the point. I didn’t agree with everything she said but that’s the beauty of America.

Alright

started out good and informative and moved into a decent narrative then turned into a story about cancer and then ended with the author using the platform to push leftist ideologies.

I enjoy this book

the author wrote great book and narrator did awesome job tell the story and characters in book

Ended up enjoying

I was on the fence about this one - the beginning was slow and really annoyed me, but was representative of the social norms around women's sexuality at the time. The best part comes in the second half when the author confronts what is really important in her life and how it affects her daughters.

Meh

The beginning of the book was gripping and good enough to leave some good books. The end of the book was a complaining against the political system and generalized it as men vs women. She states when women vote against women it hurts them all. It’s as if we should just vote for a woman regardless of her ability and political stance. There was no mention that Sarah Palin was the first female VP nominee and that the democrats made her look like an idiot just as she states women shouldn’t treat each other.

If you’re a feminist you’ll like the book. If you’re a regular guy that wants to know what women think about boobs - you’ll learn a few things.

A must for anyone with Boobs

I wasn’t sure about listening to this book, at first. Not really knowing what to expect. A comedy? It is a bit of comedy, a few tears as well. A bit of reminder of the generation I myself belong to and what we have been thru along the way. Reminders of things some easily forgotten, forgotten to survive. I am going to get my overdue mammogram. Another torture device created by men. But it does save lives. Many more years to you Leslie Lehr! Thank you.

Not overly compelling

This book has some nice personal stories and perspectives, but overall not enough for a 12-hour listen.

Thought-provoking

Lehr’s book is a late boomer/early gen-x retrospective, with history and statistics as bonus material. Both fascinating and fraught, A Boob’s Life will open your eyes to how much our bodies affect our fate. And, if you’re paying attention, it will piss you royally off. So let’s take it to the fourth wave and fix this stuff already.

Honest, interesting facts, great memoir

I was born in the 70's and can relate to a lot of the things mentioned in this audio book.
I did not get tears like some other mention in the reviews but I did get sad and mad at a few things as she mentionned . I wish women would support women