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Lucy Grealy

    Lucinda Grealy was a poet and memoirist whose work explores the theme of identity through personal experience. Her writing often focuses on the impact of serious illness and physical difference on self-perception and relationships. She delves into how individuals navigate external challenges and construct their inner lives with sensitivity and depth. Her literary approach is insightful and introspective, offering readers a perspective on the complexities of the human spirit.

    Mein Gesicht ist meine Seele
    Autobiography of a Face
    • Autobiography of a Face

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
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      This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance after childhood cancer and surgery that left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl, she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the paralyzing fear of never being loved.

      Autobiography of a Face