![]() In an interview she said that beauty is a label. If she could not succeed at being beautiful, facially, she would become as smart as she could. How does one cope with a world that defines beauty as value when one is clearly damaged? Eventually, Grealy decided that she would become deep. She offers a blow-by-blow recounting of her medical trials, accompanied by the emotional turmoil that inevitably resulted. One benefit to Grealy of her many hospitalizations was that she got to skip so much school-time, so much taunting-time.Īutobiography of a Face is Grealy’s memoir of her experience, inner and outer. Then add to it a severe facial disfigurement. Consider the garden-variety cruelty of middle-schoolers. Each time her body would eventually absorb transplanted material and sag back in on itself. In addition, she had literally dozens of surgeries attempting to restore her face. She endured two and a half years of chemotherapy and many subsequent years of radiation treatments. A third of her jawbone was removed to try to stem the spread of this cancer. ![]() At an early age, Lucy Grealy was found to have a rare form of cancer. ![]()
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