It was only as the night wore on and the moon came out and the older kids, the big kids, went on their rounds that I began to realize why I felt so good. Autobiography of a Face is a riveting, emotional true story of a woman who survived cancer as a child, but faced the severe struggle of self discovery. We walked around the neighborhood with our pillowcase sacks, running into other groups of kids and comparing notes: the house three doors down gave whole candy bars, while the house next to that gave only cheap mints. I hated this, but I assumed that one day my hair would grow in, and on that day the teasing would end. Sometimes kids would make fun of me, run past me, knock my hat off, and call me Baldy. By this time my hat had become part of me I took it off only at home. Grealy spent five years of her childhood being treated for cancer. As readers read through Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, they witness the cruelty and pain Lucy goes through as. From finding comfort in simple things like eating a cupcake to harmful and unhealthy ways like self-harm. My hair was growing in, and I loved the way the top of the hood rubbed against it. Autobiography of a Face is the brilliant prose debut of award-winning poet Lucy Grealy. Every individual person has their own way of finding comfort in difficult situations.

I put on a winter coat, made a fish out of paper, which I hung on the end of a stick, and wrapped my face up in a scarf. My mother was the one who came up with the Eskimo idea. 'A New York Times Notable Book 'This is a young womans first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable. For the last couple of years I had been too sick to go out, but this year Halloween fell on a day when I felt quiet fine.

Coming from Ireland, we had never thought of it as a big holiday, though Sarah and I usually went out trick-or treating. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was only October. 13 2016 by Lucy Grealy (Author) 1,055 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 17.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 14.90 21 Used from 14.90 4 New from 43.29 1 Collectible from 90.

An autobiography of a face