Autobiography of a Face [Thirtieth Anniversary Edition]

”So many memoirs make you feel that you’ve been sealed up inside a wall with a monomaniac. A really good one, like Autobiography of a Face, makes you feel there is more to ask and learn. You are not just seeing the writer; you are not trying to see yourself. You are seeing the world in a different way.”—Margo Jefferson

Foreword by Suleika Jaouad, author of the New York Times bestseller Between Two Kingdoms

A thirtieth-anniversary edition of Lucy Grealy’s celebrated memoir, a landmark illness ...