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Aesthetica
Allie Rowbottom
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Discovery Miles 3 630
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In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the
patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn
out to be one of the most profitable business deals in American
history and the generations that followed enjoyed immense privilege
- but they were also haunted by suicides, cancer, alcoholism and
mysterious ailments. More than 100 years after that deal was
struck, Allie's mother Mary was diagnosed with the same incurable
cancer, a disease that had also claimed her own mother's life.
Determined to combat what she had come to consider the "Jell-O
curse" and her looming mortality, Mary began obsessively
researching her family's past, determined to understand the origins
of her illness and the impact on her life of Jell-O and the
traditional American values the company championed. Before she died
in 2015, Mary began to send Allie boxes of her research and notes,
in the hope that her daughter might write what she could not.
JELL-O GIRLS is the liberation of that story. A gripping
examination of the dark side of an iconic American product and a
moving portrait of the women who lived in the shadow of its
fractured fortune, JELL-O GIRLS is a family history, a feminist
history and a story of motherhood, love and loss. In crystalline
prose Rowbottom considers the roots of trauma not only in her own
family but in the American psyche as well, ultimately weaving a
story that is deeply personal, as well as deeply connected to the
collective female experience.
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