But now, halfway into Half Moon pose with another baby on the way and her marriage feeling the strain, Dederer found herself asking: do we need to be so good? And why did she have to learn to do a perfect Handstand anyway? Part memoir, part cultural investigation, part enthusiast's guide to a modern obsession, Poser is a refreshing, funny and uplifting book for anyone who has ever tried to stand on their head - while keeping both feet on the ground. At the same time she explored the forces that shaped her generation: They were the unsettled children of women's lib, whose mothers ran away to find themselves, shacked up with much younger men and lived the transcendental dream - so when they grew up they were determined to be good, good, good. Over the next decade, Dederer tackled Triangle, Lotus, Downward Dog and the dreaded Crow, becoming firm friends with some poses and developing long-standing feuds with others. In Poser, Claire provides a humorous and uplifting book for anyone who has ever tried to stand on their head (while keeping their feet on the ground). Reluctantly, she joined a yoga class, and unexpectedly embarked on an eye-opening adventure. Reluctantly following the advice of everyone in her smug Seattle neighbourhood, she joined her first yoga class and embarked on an eye-opening adventure. Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out trying to feed her rapidly growing baby. Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out trying to breastfeed her rapidly growing baby daughter. Witty and heartfelt, sharp and irreverent, 'Poser' is unlike any other book about yoga you will read - because it is actually a book about life.Turn away now if you are expecting a treatise on 'paths' and 'destiny'. Yoga seemed to fit right into this virtuous programme, but to her surprise Dederer found that the deeper she went into the poses the more they test her most basic ideas of what makes a good mother, daughter, friend, wife - and the more they made her want something a little less tidy, a little more improvisational. Daughters of women who ran away to find themselves and made a few messes along the way, Dederer and her peers grew up determined to be good, good, good - even if this meant feeling hemmed in by the smugness of their organic-buying, attachment-parenting, anxiously conscientious little world. At the same time she found herself confronting the forces that shaped her generation. Over the next decade, she tackled Triangle, Wheel and the dreaded Crow, becoming fast friends with some poses and developing long-standing feuds with others. Told to try yoga by everyone from the woman behind the counter at the co-op to the homeless guy on the corner, she signed up for her first class. Claire Dederer is the author of LOVE AND TROUBLE and the New York Times bestselling memoir POSER: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, which has been. Ten years ago, Claire Dederer put her back out while breastfeeding her baby daughter. Print Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses

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