Crowning Glory

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Crowning Glory: An Experiment in Self-Discovery Throughh Disguise You want your hair to be perfect to show the true you. But without the hair on your head, who are you? What if it is somebody else s hair? In this beautifully written, heartfelt, witty, and life-affirming memoir, Stacy Harshman tracks her amazing experiment. By wearing dramatic, identically styled but differently colored wigs for weeks in New York City, Stacy Harshman learns more about who she is and what she can find in herself as a redhead, a raven-haired goth, a brunette, and a blonde. After hiring a spy to document how people responded to her, Stacy realizes how her hair is woven into every aspect of her life: her self-image, her depression, and her relationships. Changing her hair changed how she approached all of them. By turns rapturous, rueful, and riotous, this wise and funny book charts the story of one woman s way to shake it up, change it all, and discover something new about herself.