At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasure of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring
impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect…
This is a book for people who want a glimpse inside the mind of an artist, but it is also a book for people who need a chance to step back and put their own lives in perspective. The poet Lucy Grealy… Lucy Grealy's book is beautifully written, giving us the inner person and her reaction to her life while exposing us to the
physical disability that ultimately left her searching for her soul as well…
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