At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty years of reconstructive procedures bef...

A New York Times Notable Book. This "harrowing, lyrical autobiographical memoir . . . is a striking meditation on the distorting effects of our culture's preoccupation with physical beauty" (Publishers Weekly).

It took Lucy Grealy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image an...

A New York Times Notable Book

'It is impossible to read Autobiography of a Face without having your consciousness raised forever'
Mirabella

'Both book and life are unforgettable'
New York Times

At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a po...