Poetry
The Unexpected Afterlife of Autobiography of a Face
I first learned about Lucy Grealy in Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams. Grealy had written a book with a title that Jamison had, while an English student at Harvard in the early 2000s, imagined using for her own memoir: Autobiography of a Face. The
The bulk of Grealys book concerns her childhood: her repetitive
surgeries, her burgeoning self-consciousness, her adolescent loneliness. The
final chapter rushes through her college and graduate sc… [+1728 chars]
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