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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.

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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.

From the Publisher

Praise for Leslie Lehr

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pegasus Books (March 2, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1643136224
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1643136226
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
Reviewer: John T.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best Book I've Read in a Long Time
Review: This is a brilliant book that will move you to tears and make you laugh out loud. Putting great insight together with deep emotion is extremely difficult for any writer to pull off, but author Leslie Lehr has done it. The book begins by taking you on her personal journey as she overcomes the obstacles in her life, both large and small.But then she quickly taps into the zeitgeist better than any book in years. She effectively uses a subject, a premise, and an entirely new genre structure that together touches a nerve in a totally original way.A Boob’s Life is a comical twist on the title of the famous memoir, A Boy’s Life. It’s primarily a comedy, and a surprisingly funny one at that. It’s the story of her own life but told through the point of view of her breasts and how they affected every major stage of her life. In my opinion by doing this she accomplishes the biggest feat for a memoir – showing how hers is everywoman’s story.Not only that, she also added the genre of cultural commentary, which completely transcends the personal memoir form. She shows how America’s obsession with over-sexualizing breasts through advertising created a perfect storm of expectations of beauty and behavior that harms women.Lehr pays off all these threads and reverberates with today’s challenges faced by women by coming to a new revelation about her own feminism, an inclusionary feminism for everyone, showing that justice for women, of every appearance, is freedom for us all. That’s really something, and it’s an incredibly fun journey to go on with her.If you want something that makes you laugh, cry, and maybe think about yourself and your world in a whole new way, read this book!

Reviewer: Anne Patrice Saker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Thoughts about breasts
Review: Given how many of us own breasts, women often don’t write about them outside of exchanges in the bedroom or the oncologist’s office. It is, for sure, an obvious topic, the prow of every woman’s ship, desired, useful, beautiful. But even an obvious subject benefits from a fresh approach. Behold the excellent effort from Los Angeles writer Leslie Lehr in “A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me . . . And You.”Actor Selma Hayek understood Lehr’s intentions so well that she’s preparing a series for HBO Max based on the book.Disclosure out of the gate: Leslie and I are school chums from our Columbus, Ohio, girlhood, and I have admired her writing for years. I did come to this latest book a little apprehensive about the jokey term in the title. But in reading this book, now I see my classmate is simply reminding us that we’re all baffled about our bodies, and our culture doesn’t help us.This clever volume folds together a deeply affecting personal story about Lehr and her breasts growing up, getting married, nursing babies, surviving cancer, divorcing husband No. 1, finding husband No. 2, living well. Lehr is blunt and funny in telling about reconstructive surgery leaving a breast pointing off to one side.But “A Boob’s Life” is more than an illness narrative. Lehr keenly observes the influence of recruiting breasts to sell stuff, from Playboy and beer ads and all the omnipresent manufactured imagery: “With swimsuit season ahead, magazines declared a new focus on the décolletage, one of a woman’s ‘most beautiful’ areas. … Online, beauty bloggers were posting lists of ‘boob masks’ meant not only to smooth and brighten the skin, but to lift, tone and reduce the loss of perkiness. … Oh, how I missed the days when we only worried about tan lines.”I can’t wait to see Leslie at our class reunion this year to congratulate her on this brave, intelligent book.

Reviewer: Lucille Guarino
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Original
Review: Loved the originality and humor in this book. Great title!

Reviewer: MJG
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love Your Boobs
Review: 'Come for the boobs and stay for the serious stuff' in Leslie Lear's memoir, A Boob's Life. This insightful, engaging account of her journey from AA to DDD, riffing her way from bras stuffed with tissues, through the bountiful boob time of breastfeeding, the deflation to her self-image (coinciding with the return of her flat chest) caused by a difficult marriage, the ups and downs of her life as a single working mom (aka: the kindness of strangers), and then, with bouncy implants in place, romance and marrying the man of her dreams, only to be thrown under the bus with the diagnosis of breast cancer. Brilliant and personal. Lehr is the person you want to meet for lunch, keep talking through the afternoon into dinner. Bookclubs and women's groups will devour this memoir. Lehr prompts us to kiss the kind men and women in our life and schedule our long overdue mammogram. Love, motherhood, women's health, heartbreak, hope. It's simple and inspirational.

Reviewer: stoneharborfilms
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Consistently engrossing, surprising, and satisfying
Review: Intimate telling of what's it's like growing up female in America and how attitudes towards women's breasts shaped a life, a culture, and a feminist journey. Great photo section too. A very worthwhile read!

Reviewer: HGewirtz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Witty, entertaining and essential
Review: Leslie Lehr’s highly entertaining, and witty memoir, A Boob’s Life, paints a vivid portrait of a modern woman as she grows from girlhood to maturity—with all its joy and despair. Ms. Lehr ties in the powerful theme of how central a woman’s breasts can be to her identity. Along the way, we learn some delightfully arcane history of the boob, so you can amaze your friends at your next dinner party. When breast cancer makes it’s dreaded, unwelcome appearance, Lehr’s book goes from being an absorbing memoir to an essential one. With startling frankness, Lehr takes us along on her harrowing journey from diagnosis to treatment with a novelist’s eye for detail and the narrative power to make us feel what her treatment regimen does to her body. Women will doubtlessly relate strongly to A Boob’s Life but it may be even more important for men to learn just how complicated it is to be a woman!