![]() ![]() ![]() When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. “Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of own wit and style and class.”- Washington Post Book WorldĪt age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures 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. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison."Īt age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. ![]() It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. ![]() "I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. ![]()
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