Autobiography of a Face

The Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy is an autobiography of a girl who turns her misfortune into an encouraging story that is engaging and engrossing. 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 her classmates. She spent the next twenty years being treated differently for "looking different" from the rest of the world. Yet with all the hardships in her life, Grealy overcame childhood cancer, permanent disfigurement, and ultimately the deep bottomless grief called…