While waiting for the next book of The First Edition Book Club, I downloaded an Ann Patchett memoir to Kindle. Truth & Beauty is the 2004 paean to the late Lucy Grealy, 6/3/63-12/18/2002.
" Lucinda Margaret Grealy was an Irish-American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescent experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement.". Wikipedia
"Autobiography of a Face is a memoir by Lucy Grealy in which she narrates her life before and after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma. The memoir describes her life from the age of nine to adulthood." Wikipedia
Grealy was an insecure, troubled genius who was a "people collector." Patchett and Grealy were students together at Sarah Lawrence College. They became bonded in friendship when they roomed together at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Iowa City, IA. Their lives intertwined until Grealy's death of a heroin overdose. Patchett's poignant, and also self-revelatory, memoir is written deep love, compassion and her customary eloquence.
Takk fir alt,
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