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Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in university in 1981, and, after searching for the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, started out a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Grealy’s critically acclaimed memoir, Autobiography of the Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, many years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn’t Lucy’s life or Ann’s life, but the elements of their lives they shared. That is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans two decades, from the long winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in NY. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is exactly what this means to participate two lives that are intertwined . . . and what goes on when some may be left behind.That is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of a person who knew how to live life to the fullest.
