Lucy Grealy Autobiography Of A Face Analysis
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
As everyday people, one is used to seeing faces that are “regularly proportioned.” But what happens when one stumble upon one that’s different from the status quo? They stop and stare or may talk about the person. Lucy Grealy experienced both of these and even more after her surgery that removed one-third of her jaw. The encounters and troubles that she faced are recorded in her autobiography, Autobiography of a Face (1994). Lucy Grealy was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 3, 1963. At the age of four, she and her family (which consisted of her mother, father, two brothers, twin sister, and older sister) moved to Spring Valley, New York. Autobiography of a Face tracks Grealy’s life from the
As everyday people, one is used to seeing faces that are “regularly proportioned.” But what happens when one stumble upon one that’s different from the status quo? They stop and stare or may talk about the person. Lucy Grealy experienced both of these and even more after her surgery that removed one-third of her jaw. The encounters and troubles that she faced are recorded in her autobiography, Autobiography of a Face (1994). Lucy Grealy was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 3, 1963. At the age of four, she and her family (which consisted of her mother, father, two brothers, twin sister, and older sister) moved to Spring Valley, New York. Autobiography of a Face tracks Grealy’s life from the