'Gross Anatomy' Turns Humor On Taboos About The Female Body
Author Mara Altman got tired of hiding her hairy, sweaty self from the world, and set out to reframe the shame in her latest book of essays — part memoir, part scientific exploration, part manifesto.
When humorist and writer Mara Altman was 19 and attending college at UCLA, she learned something about herself which, she says, felt devastating at the time.
It happened while she was flirting with a server at a Mexican restaurant one evening. His name was Gustavo and he said five simple words: "I like your blonde mustache."
Now, she knew about this blonde mustache. But she had been bleaching it for years in the hopes that no one else would notice it.
Altman's latest book, , is a personal,
