A review by saraqt
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

4.0

I'm usually not one to read the end of a book part way through, but while looking a how many pages were in this book about half way through, I read the afterword. I think this changed how I read the book and what I thought about Lucy. I thought the perspective of her childhood cancer was breathtaking. Her mother's inability to comfort her during her trying times, her father's need not to see his daughter in pain, her lack of true understanding about the disease plaguing her body all rang true to me. Though her later story became about accepting herself despite her disfigurement, the childhood and middle school struggles really resonated with me as a reader.