Crowning Glory: An experiment in self-discovery through disguise

"...A quirky, clever memoir." Kirkus Reviews

"Humor, danger, laughter, lust -- even madness – combine to make Crowning Glory as perfect a fit as one of her own flamboyant hairpieces. You won’t be able to put it down – or take it off." -- Richard D. Smith

"Crowning Glory is what would happen if 'Eat Pray Love', 'A Beautiful Mind', and 'Sex in the City' had a ménage à trois...” - Sunny Turner

IR Verdict: CROWNING GLORY is a refreshingly unique memoir celebrating beauty and sensuality as being much more than skin deep; and it is a love story where the heroine falls in love for the first time with the person she is on the inside.

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.