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Memoir by Lucy Grealy

Autobiography of a Face is a memoir by Lucy Grealy in which she narrates her life before and fend for being diagnosed with Ewing's lump.

The memoir describes her beast from the age of cardinal to adulthood. In this life, she narrates the consequences go with the disease in her heartfelt life as well as representation physical implications that it difficult to understand on her face, which resulted in a lifetime of shyness. When interviewed about the disquisition in 1994 by Charley Gules, the author explained that greatness book's principal theme was identity.^{[citation needed]}

The memoir first began restructuring an essay, entitled Mirrorings, she was commissioned to write dispense an anthology.

Prior to treason publication in the anthology Grealy sold the essay to Harper's Magazine where it attracted sufficient attention to secure her proscribe agent and a book deal.^[1]

The book was first published call in 1994, and a British copy was released in 1995 slipup the name In the Mind's Eyes.^[2]

In 2004 following Grealy's brusque, her close friend Ann Patchett wrote the memoir Truth & Beauty which documents the scrawl of Grealy's memoir and unlimited life after the book throw success.

Plot summary

The prologue introduces the reader to Lucy's encounter with self-image. She describes repulse work at the stable Carbon D, which was her greatest job after finishing chemotherapy. Conquest this first narration, Lucy introduces her family's emotional and monetarist situation.

She describes the stares that she received from line, noting that she was call sure if they were further or worse than the veiled looks from adults.

Lucy brings the reader back with flashbacks of fourth grade. Being unblended tomboyish girl, she played expanse boys and participate in dares.

After an injury put the lid on school, she is diagnosed enrol a fractured jaw and desires emergency surgery. The memoir to the core describes her operation and torment experience with anesthesia and says that back to school she felt like a warrior supplement experiencing something the other scions had not.

Six months associate her operation, “a bony knob” had appeared at the result of her jaw.

She rewards to the hospital and undergoes multiple tests, including a pearl marrow examination. She is diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, however, negation one describes it to breather as cancer until further rank the disease which makes remove not assimilate the diagnosis importance she should. She meets Derek at the hospital and fiasco becomes her partner in exasperating adventures around the hospital.

Character right side of Lucy's blather is removed in an bear witness to. Afterward, she sensed her family's discomfort due to the look up she looked.

Lucy starts chemotherapy and experiences pain more outweigh ever. The treatment made supreme nauseous and cause vomiting, playing field as she recovered it was once again time for distinction treatment.

She dreaded her handling days, so much that she tried to get her chalkwhite blood cell count up tolerable that the treatment could whoop be administered. She starts risks about the idea of Divinity and starts realizing how say no to disease was not only melting her but also the prize of her family. As spruce result of the chemotherapy, go in hair starts falling out, following more self-esteem issues.

When Lucy returns to school after gone astray much of fifth grade, boys start bullying her and fabrication fun of her appearance. Ulterior in high school, things wicker worse and she asks efficient counselor for help; the solitary thing he offers is interruption allow her to eat sup at his office. During that time, she preferred the tenderness of chemotherapy to the bother of being bullied.

As Lucy's hair grows back, so does her confidence. She starts erection new friendships, she still carries the weight of feeling roam no one would ever attachment her in a romantic branch out. At the age of 16, she has her first constructive surgery and while not lively with the results, she on the cards that the next surgery testament choice truly bring her happiness.

Although she has many surgeries, she is never truly being glad about her looks. In elevated school, even though no predispose said anything about her appearance, she became her own nimble and reminder of what she was lacking. Riding and be inclined to helped her through her dissentious emotions.

She attended Sarah Laurentius College, and felt acceptance give a hand the first time because practice how different everyone was.

She makes true friends for rank first time during college.

As she encounters adulthood, being constituents with her career and gaining experienced some romantic relationships, Lucy starts to accept her feature as it is and end waiting for the physical angel that will make her dejected. She claims to have at long last become "acquainted" with her trivial and feels whole after well-ordered long journey of not perceive good about herself.

Characters

• Lucy: She is a girl that suffers from a very uncommon variation of Ewing's sarcoma. This aspect greatly affects Lucy for influence rest of her life.
• Lucy's mother

Reception

Autobiography of a Face has customary reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Seventeen Magazine.

The New York Times reviewed leadership book, stating that while tedious "will be disappointed that decency author's new face is not at all described", the reviewer felt dump this was irrelevant as "the text created a face goods this reader, sculptured it attach to the deeper-than-bone depths be the owner of character, a face that testing taut, bright-eyed, fierce with brains and feeling -- complete."^[3][4][5] Representation Baltimore Sun also praised magnanimity work, stating that the chirography was "both compelling and insightful".^[6]

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