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"I put in five years of my entire life being cared for for cancer, but since then I've put in 15 years being cared for for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It had been the pain from that, from sensing ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my entire life. The fact i had cancer felt minor in comparison." At age group nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a possibly terminal cancer. When she went back to university with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. With this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great anguish and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy catches with unique insight what it is like as a kid and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to believe that above all else you want to be enjoyed for who we have been, while wishing frantically and secretly to be perfect.
