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Book Review of Autobiography of a Face

Autobiography of a Face
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An amazing story - I read this in a day. From her initial diagnosis at a young age of Ewing's sarcoma, the author chronicles her journey through childhood, teen years and early adulthood, from the innocence of not even realizing the seriousness of her disease or the severity of her treatment, through radiation and chemotherapy treatments, the solitude and loneliness of years of reconstructive procedures that yielded no real physical results and through her various methods of coping with her disfigured face. I'd love to see this book become required reading for every teen - there's a lesson to be learned within these pages.