Truth Beauty Author:Ann Patchett Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and after enrolling in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. ... This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long winters of the Midwest to surgical wards, to book parties in New... more » York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined ... and what happens when one is left behind.« less